Peste des petits ruminants infection among cattle and wildlife in northern Tanzania

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2037-2040

  Lembo, Tiziana ^a   Oura, Christopher ^b   Parida, Satya ^c   Hoare, Richard ^d   Frost, Lorraine ^c   Fyumagwa, Robert ^d   Kivaria, Fredrick ^e   Chubwa, Chobi ^e   Kock, Richard ^f   Cleaveland, Sarah ^a   Batten, Carrie ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

^d TANZANIA WILDLIFE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

^e Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries Development   (Tanzania)

^f ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BUFFALO; CATTLE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; NONHUMAN; PESTE DES PETITS RUMINANTS; SEROPREVALENCE; TANZANIA; VACCINATION; WILDLIFE;

CATTLE; DISEASE ERADICATION; MORBILLIVIRUS; PESTE DES PETITS RUMINANTS; RINDERPEST; SEROSURVEILLANCE; TANZANIA; VIRUSES; WILDLIFE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; GEOGRAPHY, MEDICAL; PESTE-DES-PETITS-RUMINANTS; PESTE-DES-PETITS-RUMINANTS VIRUS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SEROTYPING; TANZANIA;

EID: 84888087627     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1912.130973     Document Type: Article

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