Prevalence of the bacterium coxiella burnetii in wild rodents from a canadian natural environment park

Zoonoses and Public Health

Volumn 59, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 553-560

  Thompson, M ^a   Mykytczuk, N ^b   Gooderham, K ^a   Schulte Hostedde, A ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Algonquin Provincial Park; Coxiella burnetii; Reservoir species; Small mammals; Wildlife disease; Zoonotic

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CANADA; COXIELLA BURNETII; FEMALE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q FEVER; SCIURIDAE; TAMIAS; VOLE; WILDLIFE; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; COXIELLA BURNETII; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ONTARIO; PREVALENCE; Q FEVER; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RODENT DISEASES; RODENTIA; ZOONOSES;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLETHRIONOMYS GAPPERI; COXIELLA BURNETII; GLAUCOMYS SABRINUS; MAMMALIA; NAPAEOZAPUS; PEROMYSCUS; RODENTIA; TAMIAS STRIATUS; TAMIASCIURUS HUDSONICUS;

EID: 84869195097     PISSN: 18631959     EISSN: 18632378     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1863-2378.2012.01493.x     Document Type: Article

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