Serological prevalence of Coxiella burnetii in captive wild ruminants in Saudi Arabia

Comparative Clinical Pathology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 33-38

  Hussein, Mansour F ^a   Al Khalifa, Ibrahim M ^a   Aljumaah, Riyadh S ^a   Elnabi, Abdelrahman Gar ^a   Mohammed, Osama B ^b   Omer, Sawsan A ^b   Macasero, William V ^b  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b National Commission for Wildlife Conservation and Development Saudi Arabia   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Arabian oryx (Oryx leucoryx); Coxiella burnetii; ELISA; Mountain gazelle (Gazella gazella); Sand gazelle (Gazella subgutturosa marica); Saudi Arabia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856260217     PISSN: 16185641     EISSN: 1618565X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00580-010-1061-y     Document Type: Article

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