Factors associated with the seroprevalence of leishmaniasis in dogs living around Atlantic Forest fragments

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Curi, Nelson Henrique De Almeida ^a   Paschoal, Ana Maria De Oliveira ^b   Massara, Rodrigo Lima ^b   Marcelino, Andreza Pain ^c   Ribeiro, Adriana Aparecida ^c   Passamani, Marcelo ^a   Demétrio, Guilherme Ramos ^a   Chiarello, Adriano Garcia ^d  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF LAVRAS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^c Ezequiel Dias Foundation (FUNED)   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BRAZIL; CAT; CHICKEN; CONTRACEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOG; FEMALE; FLEA; HAIR; INFECTION RISK; MALE; NAIL; NONHUMAN; RISK FACTOR; SEROPREVALENCE; SKIN DEFECT; SWINE; TICK; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ANIMAL; BLOOD; DOG DISEASES; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FAMILY SIZE; FOREST; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; PARASITOLOGY; PIG; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRANSMISSION; VETERINARY;

PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BRAZIL; CATS; CHICKENS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; FORESTS; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SWINE;

EID: 84905472505     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0104003     Document Type: Article

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