Contact with domestic dogs increases pathogen exposure in endangered African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Woodroffe, Rosie ^a,b   Prager, Katherine C ^b   Munson, Linda ^b,c   Conrad, Patricia A ^b,c   Dubovi, Edward J ^d   Mazet, Jonna A K ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CANINE DISTEMPER MORBILLIVIRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONAVIRUS; DOG; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; EHRLICHIA CANIS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INFECTION RISK; LYCAON PICTUS; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NONHUMAN; PARVOVIRUS; RABIES VIRUS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; COCCIDIOSIS; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOG DISEASE; EHRLICHIOSIS; FEMALE; KENYA; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; NEOSPORA; PARASITOLOGY; PARVOVIRUS INFECTION; PATHOGENICITY; STATISTICS; VIROLOGY; WILD ANIMAL;

CANINE CORONAVIRUS; CANINE DISTEMPER VIRUS; CANINE PARVOVIRUS; CANIS FAMILIARIS; EHRLICHIA CANIS; LYCAON PICTUS; NEOSPORA CANINUM; RABIES VIRUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANIMALS, WILD; COCCIDIOSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; DISEASE VECTORS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; EHRLICHIA CANIS; EHRLICHIOSIS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; KENYA; MALE; NEOSPORA; PARVOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS;

EID: 84855423891     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030099     Document Type: Article

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