Best Practices for Preventing Vector-Borne Diseases in Dogs and Humans

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 43-55

  Dantas Torres, Filipe ^a,b   Otranto, Domenico ^b  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dogs; Humans; Leishmaniasis; One Health; Prevention; Vector borne diseases

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASMOSIS; BARTONELLOSIS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIROFILARIASIS; EHRLICHIOSIS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FLEA; HEPATOZOONOSIS; HUMAN; INFECTION; LEISHMANIASIS; LYME DISEASE; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PHLEBOTOMINAE; PIROPLASMOSIS; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; RANGELIOSIS; REVIEW; RICKETTSIOSIS; TICK; VECTOR BORNE DISEASE; ANIMAL; DOG; DOG DISEASES; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITOLOGY; TICK-BORNE DISEASES; TRANSMISSION; TROPIC CLIMATE; VIROLOGY; ZOONOSES;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD VECTORS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; HUMANS; TICK-BORNE DISEASES; TROPICAL CLIMATE; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84952862583     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: 14715007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2015.09.004     Document Type: Review

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