Environmental and Behavioural Determinants of Leptospirosis Transmission: A Systematic Review

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Mwachui, Mwanajaa Abdalla ^a,b   Crump, Lisa ^a,b   Hartskeerl, Rudy ^c   Zinsstag, Jakob ^a,b   Hattendorf, Jan ^a,b  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c ROYAL TROPICAL INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

AGRICULTURE; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; FLOODING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LANDSCAPE; LEPTOSPIROSIS; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; RISK FACTOR; SEROTYPE; SWIMMING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ANIMAL; CLIMATE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; TRANSMISSION; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR; CLIMATE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; RISK FACTORS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84943196151     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003843     Document Type: Article

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