A cross-sectional sero-epidemiological study of canine leishmaniasis in Greek mainland

Acta Tropica

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 291-295

  Athanasiou, L V ^a   Kontos, V I ^b   Saridomichelakis, M N ^a   Rallis, T S ^c   Diakou, A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Greece)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^d ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Dog; Greece; Leishmania; Serology

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY; CANID; CROSS SECTION; ENZYME; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PARASITE; PROTOZOAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DOG DISEASE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GREECE; GROUPS BY AGE; HAIR; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIASIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GREECE; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIASIS; MALE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

GREECE;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM;

EID: 84859436077     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2012.02.003     Document Type: Article

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