Annual seroprevalence of Yersinia pestis in coyotes as predictors of interannual variation in reports of human plague cases in Arizona, United States

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1439-1446

  Brown, Heidi E ^a   Levy, Craig E ^b   Enscore, Russell E ^a   Schriefer, Martin E ^a   Deliberto, Thomas J ^c   Gage, Kenneth L ^a   Eisen, Rebecca J ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES   (United States)

^c UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arizona; Coyote seroprevalence rates; Meteorology; Plague; Yersinia pestis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COYOTE; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PLAGUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SEROPREVALENCE; UNITED STATES; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ARIZONA; CLIMATE; COYOTES; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; PLAGUE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; UNITED STATES; YERSINIA PESTIS;

CANIS LATRANS; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 81155123336     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: 15577759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2010.0196     Document Type: Article

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