Serosurvey of dogs for human, livestock, and wildlife pathogens, Uganda

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 680-682

  Millán, Javier ^a   Chirife, Andrea D ^a   Kalema Zikusoka, Gladys ^b   Cabezón, Oscar ^a   Muro, Jesús, ^c   Marco, Ignasi ^a   Cliquet, Florence ^d   León Vizcaíno, Luis ^e   Wasniewski, Marine ^d   Almería, Sonia ^a,f   Mugisha, Lawrence ^b,g  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Conservation through Public Health ^*  (Uganda)

^c Ministry of Agriculture   (Andorra)

^d Nancy Laboratory for Rabies and Wildlife   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^f CENTRE DE RECERCA EN SANITAT ANIMAL CRESA   (Spain)

^g MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; RABIES VACCINE;

CANINE DISTEMPER MORBILLIVIRUS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOG; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FELINE PANLEUKOPENIA VIRUS; GORILLA; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LEISHMANIA; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LETTER; LIVESTOCK; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NONHUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; RABIES; SEROPREVALENCE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; UGANDA; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS; WILDLIFE;

BACTERIA; DOGS; DOMESTIC ANIMALS; LIVESTOCK; PARASITES; PATHOGENS; PREVENTIVE STRATEGIES; RABIES; SEROLOGIC SURVEYS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; VIRUSES; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS; WILDLIFE; ZOONOSES;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DISTEMPER; DISTEMPER VIRUS, CANINE; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; HUMANS; LIVESTOCK; PREVALENCE; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL; UGANDA;

EID: 84875284262     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1904.121143     Document Type: Letter

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