The dog in the transmission of human leptospirosis under tropical conditions: Victim or villain?

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 140, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 207-208

  Martins, G ^a   Penna, B ^a   Lilenbaum, W ^a  

^a FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BEHAVIOR; DOG; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LETTER; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATION; POPULATION DENSITY; SEROTYPE; SOCIOECONOMICS; TROPICS; WATER CONTAMINATION; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; DOG DISEASES; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIROSIS;

EID: 84455195417     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268811000276     Document Type: Letter

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