Shelter dogs as sentinels for Trypanosoma cruzi transmission across Texas, USA

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1323-1326

  Tenney, Trevor D ^a   Curtis Robles, Rachel ^a   Snowden, Karen F ^a   Hamer, Sarah A ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHAGAS DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA EXTRACTION; DOG; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENTINEL EVENT; SEROPREVALENCE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; UNITED STATES; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DOG DISEASES; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ODDS RATIO; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; TRANSMISSION; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; CHAGAS DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; MALE; ODDS RATIO; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TEXAS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 84905228689     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2008.131843     Document Type: Article

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