Collection and utilization of animal carcasses associated with zoonotic disease in Tshuapa district, the democratic Republic of the Congo, 2012

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 734-738

  Monroe, Benjamin P ^a   Doty, Jeffrey B ^a   Moses, Cynthia ^b   Ibata, Saturnin ^b   Reynolds, Mary ^a   Carroll, Darin ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b International Conservation and Education Fund   (United States)

Author keywords

Bushmeat; Carcass; Ebola; Monkeypox; Primate; Rodent; Spillover

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CERCOPITHECUS ASCANIUS; CRICETOMYS GAMBIANUS; HELIOSCIURUS RUFOBRACHIUM; PRIMATES; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

ANIMAL; CERCOPITHECUS; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; RAT; SCIURIDAE; VIROLOGY; WILD ANIMAL; ZOONOSES;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CERCOPITHECUS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; RATS; SCIURIDAE; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84937538813     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/2014-05-140     Document Type: Article

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