Animal brucellosis in Egypt

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1365-1373

  Wareth, Gamal ^a,b,c   Hikal, Ahmed ^c   Refai, Mohamed ^d   Melzer, Falk ^a   Roesler, Uwe ^b   Neubauer, Heinrich ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c BENHA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^d CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Biotyping; Brucellosis; Egypt; Isolation; Seroprevalence

Indexed keywords

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANIMAL DISEASE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; BRUCELLA SUIS; BRUCELLOSIS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EGYPT; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS; NONHUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; ANIMAL; BRUCELLA; CATFISH; CLASSIFICATION; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; VETERINARY;

ANIMALIA; BOS; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS BIOVAR ABORTUS; BUBALUS; CAMELIDAE; CAPRA HIRCUS; OVIS ARIES;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS; CATFISHES; EGYPT; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

EID: 84924274581     PISSN: 20366590     EISSN: 19722680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3855/jidc.4872     Document Type: Review

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