Animal Leptospirosis

Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 387, Issue , 2015, Pages 99-137

  Ellis, William A ^a  

^a AGRI FOOD AND BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIS INFECTION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BUFFALO DISEASE; CAMELID DISEASE; CAT DISEASE; CATTLE DISEASE; DEER DISEASE; DISEASE ERADICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DOG DISEASE; DONKEY DISEASE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FLUID THERAPY; GOAT DISEASE; HORSE DISEASE; HUMAN; INCIDENTAL INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LIVESTOCK; NONHUMAN; POMONA INFECTION; PRIMATE DISEASE; RISK REDUCTION; RODENT DISEASE; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; SEROTYPE; SHEEP DISEASE; SWINE DISEASE; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; TARASSOVI INFECTION; VACCINATION; VERTEBRATE; WILD ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL; BOVINAE; CAT; DOG; HORSE; SHEEP; SWINE; VETERINARY;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; CATS; CATTLE; DOGS; HORSES; LEPTOSPIROSIS; SHEEP; SWINE;

EID: 84921767026     PISSN: 0070217X     EISSN: 21969965     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-45059-8_6     Document Type: Article

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