Carrier Status of Leptospirosis Among Cattle in Sri Lanka: A Zoonotic Threat to Public Health

Summary Leptospirosis is a zoonotic disease of global importance and one of the notifiable diseases in Sri Lanka. Recent studies on human leptospirosis have suggested that the cattle could be one of the important reservoirs for human infection in the country. However, there is a dearth of local info...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Transboundary and emerging diseases 2014-02, Vol.61 (1), p.91-96
Hauptverfasser:	Gamage, C. D., Koizumi, N., Perera, A. K. C., Muto, M., Nwafor-Okoli, C., Ranasinghe, S., Kularatne, S. A. M., Rajapakse, R. P. V. J., Kanda, K., Lee, R. B., Obayashi, Y., Ohnishi, M., Tamashiro, H.
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Animals Bacterial infections Carrier State - veterinary carrier status Cattle Cattle Diseases - diagnosis Cattle Diseases - transmission Disease Reservoirs - veterinary Disease transmission DNA, Bacterial - analysis flaB gene Food Inspection - standards Humans Kidney - microbiology Kidney - pathology Leptospira Leptospira - classification Leptospira - genetics Leptospira - isolation & purification leptospirosis Leptospirosis - blood Leptospirosis - epidemiology Leptospirosis - transmission Leptospirosis - veterinary Meat - analysis Polymerase Chain Reaction - veterinary Prevalence Public Health Sri Lanka Sri Lanka - epidemiology Zoonoses zoonosis
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