Brucella suis infection in Dogs, Georgia, USA

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2386-2387

  Ramamoorthy, Sheela ^a   Woldemeskel, Moges ^a   Ligett, Alan ^a   Snider, Ron ^a   Cobb, Robert ^b   Rajeev, Sreekumari ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b Georgia Department of Agriculture   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN;

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; BRUCELLA CANIS; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; BRUCELLA SUIS; BRUCELLOSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DAIRY PRODUCT; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOG; EPIDIDYMITIS; FOOD INTAKE; IMMUNODIFFUSION; INFECTION RISK; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERODIAGNOSIS; TREATMENT DURATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84930484120     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1712.111127     Document Type: Letter

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