Q fever risk across a dynamic, heterogeneous landscape in Laikipia County, Kenya

EcoHealth

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 429-433

  Depuy, Walker ^a,b   Benka, Valerie ^b   Massey, Aimee ^b   Deem, Sharon L ^c   Kinnaird, Margaret ^d,e   O'Brien, Timothy ^d,e   Wanyoike, Salome ^f   Njoka, Jesse ^g   Butt, Bilal ^b   Foufopoulos, Johannes ^b   Eisenberg, Joseph N S ^b   Hardin, Rebecca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c SAINT LOUIS ZOO   (United States)

^d MPALA RESEARCH CENTRE   (Kenya)

^e WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^f Ministry of Livestock Development   (Kenya)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

C. burnetii; Camels; Kenya; Laikipia County; Livestock; Q fever; Zoonotic pathogen

Indexed keywords

BOS; CAMELIDAE; CAPRA HIRCUS; COXIELLA BURNETII; OVIS ARIES;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASES; COXIELLA BURNETII; KENYA; LIVESTOCK; MICROBIOLOGY; Q FEVER; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSMISSION; URINE; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMAL DISEASES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; COXIELLA BURNETII; KENYA; LIVESTOCK; Q FEVER; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84905224814     PISSN: 16129202     EISSN: 16129210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10393-014-0924-0     Document Type: Article

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