Brucellosis in domestic water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) of Trinidad and Tobago with comparative epidemiology to cattle

Tropical Animal Health and Production

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1479-1486

  Fosgate, Geoffrey T ^a   Diptee, Michael D ^b   Ramnanan, Anil ^c   Adesiyun, Abiodun Adewale ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

^c The Ministry of Agriculture Land and Marine Resources Trinidad and Tobago   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

Brucellosis; Buffalypso; Cattle; Domestic water buffalo; Epidemiology; Trinidad and Tobago

Indexed keywords

BRUCELLA VACCINE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; BRUCELLOSIS; BUFFALO; CATTLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO; VACCINATION; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; BRUCELLA VACCINE; BRUCELLOSIS; BRUCELLOSIS, BOVINE; BUFFALOES; CATTLE; PREVALENCE; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO; VACCINATION; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; BOS; BOVINAE; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS BIOVAR ABORTUS; BUBALUS; BUBALUS BUBALIS;

EID: 80255137109     PISSN: 00494747     EISSN: 15737438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11250-011-9846-9     Document Type: Review

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