A spatial analysis of Rift Valley fever virus seropositivity in domestic ruminants in Tanzania

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Sindato, Calvin ^a,b,c   Pfeiffer, Dirk U ^d   Karimuribo, Esron D ^b,c   Mboera, Leonard E G ^a   Rweyemamu, Mark M ^c   Paweska, Janusz T ^e,f  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

^b SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Tanzania)

^c Southern African Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance   (Tanzania)

^d ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES   (South Africa)

^f UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOMESTIC CATTLE; DOMESTIC GOAT; DOMESTIC SHEEP; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; INFECTION RISK; MALE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; RIFT VALLEY FEVER; RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; SOIL WATER CONTENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TANZANIA; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BOVINE; CATTLE DISEASES; EPIDEMIC; GOAT; GOAT DISEASES; IMMUNOLOGY; PREVALENCE; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; MALE; PREVALENCE; RIFT VALLEY FEVER; RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; TANZANIA;

EID: 84941312321     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0131873     Document Type: Article

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