Endemicity of leptospirosis in domestic and wild animal species from Reunion Island (Indian Ocean)

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 141, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1154-1165

  Desvars, A ^a,b,c   Naze, F ^c   Benneveau, A ^a   Cardinale, E ^a,b   Michault, A ^c  

^a CIRAD   (France)

^b Centre Regional de Recherche et de Veille sur les Maladies Emergentes de l'Ocean Indien   (Reunion)

^c Groupe Hospitalier Sud Réunion GHSR   (Reunion)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; leptospirosis; quantitative PCR; Reunion Island; zoonosis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CARRIER; CAT; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEER; DNA SEQUENCE; DOG; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GOAT; INFECTION PREVENTION; KIDNEY; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; REUNION; RODENT; SEROPREVALENCE; SHREW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SWINE; TENREC; WILD ANIMAL; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANIMALS, WILD; CAT DISEASES; CATS; CHIROPTERA; DEER; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; HUMANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MICE; PREVALENCE; RATS; REUNION; SHREWS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84876938258     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268812002075     Document Type: Article

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