Zoonotic Diseases Associated with Free-Roaming Cats

Zoonoses and Public Health

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 189-195

  Gerhold, R W ^a   Jessup, D A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Cutaneous larval migrans; Free roaming cats; Rabies; Toxoplasmosis; Zoonoses

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; BARTONELLOSIS; BLINDNESS; CARNIVORE; CAT; CAT SCRATCH DISEASE; CTENOCEPHALIDES; ECTOPARASITE; ENDOPARASITE; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; HUMAN; INFLUENZA A (H1N1); INFLUENZA A (H5N1); KITTEN; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PLAGUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RABIES; REVIEW; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; TOXOCARA CATI; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TULAREMIA; TYPHUS; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; CASTRATION; CAT DISEASE; LARVA MIGRANS; PARASITOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TRANSMISSION; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY; WILD ANIMAL;

MURINAE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CASTRATION; CAT DISEASES; CATS; HUMANS; LARVA MIGRANS; POPULATION CONTROL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RABIES; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84876184535     PISSN: 18631959     EISSN: 18632378     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1863-2378.2012.01522.x     Document Type: Review

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