Human and animal leptospirosis in Southern Brazil: A five-year retrospective study

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 18, Issue , 2017, Pages 46-52

  Jorge, Sérgio ^a   Schuch, Rodrigo Andrade ^a   de Oliveira, Natasha Rodrigues ^a   da Cunha, Carlos Eduardo Pouey ^a   Gomes, Charles Klazer ^a   Oliveira, Thais Larré ^a   Rizzi, Caroline ^a   Qadan, Aisha Farid ^a   Pacce, Violetta Dias ^a   Coelho Recuero, Ana Lúcia ^a   Soares Brod, Claudiomar ^a   Dellagostin, Odir Antônio ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Risk factors; Zoonotic disease

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; LEPTOSPIRAL ANTIBODY; RAIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BOVINE; BRAZIL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOG; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; EQUUS; HUMAN; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIRA KIRSCHNERI SEROVAR BUTEMBO; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MICROSCOPIC AGGLUTINATION TEST; NONHUMAN; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEROCONVERSION; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; SEROTYPE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; RISK FACTOR; VETERINARY; ZOONOSES;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BRAZIL; DOGS; HUMANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 85025835959     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: 18730442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2017.07.010     Document Type: Article

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