Bartonella infection in urban and rural dogs from the tropics: Brazil, Colombia, Sri Lanka and Vietnam

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 54-61

  Brenner, E C ^a   Chomel, B B ^a   Singhasivanon, O U ^a   Namekata, D Y ^a   Kasten, R W ^a   Kass, P H ^a   Cortes Vecino J A ^b   Gennari, S M ^c   Rajapakse, R P ^d   Huong, L T ^e   Dubey, J P ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA   (Sri Lanka)

^e NONG LAM UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^f AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bartonella; Brazil; Colombia; Sri Lanka; stray dogs; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA CLARRIDGEIAE; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; BARTONELLA ROCHALIMAE; BARTONELLA VINSONNII; BARTONELLOSIS; BRAZIL; COLOMBIA; DNA EXTRACTION; DOG; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; SRI LANKA; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; VIET NAM;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA INFECTIONS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84870916956     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268812000519     Document Type: Article

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