Tick-Borne Encephalitis in Sheep, Romania

Little is known about the occurrence of tick-borne encephalitis in Romania. Sheep are an infection source for humans and are useful sentinels for risk analysis. We demonstrate high antibody prevalence (15.02%) among sheep used as sentinels for this disease in 80% of the tested localities in 5 counti...

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Autores principales: Salat, Jiri, Mihalca, Andrei D., Mihaiu, Marian, Modrý, David, Ruzek, Daniel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2017
Materias:
Dispatch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5708217/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29148377
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2312.170166
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Sumario:Little is known about the occurrence of tick-borne encephalitis in Romania. Sheep are an infection source for humans and are useful sentinels for risk analysis. We demonstrate high antibody prevalence (15.02%) among sheep used as sentinels for this disease in 80% of the tested localities in 5 counties of northwestern Romania.

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