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
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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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author Salat, Jiri
Mihalca, Andrei D.
Mihaiu, Marian
Modrý, David
Ruzek, Daniel
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description 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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spelling pubmed-57082172017-12-09 Tick-Borne Encephalitis in Sheep, Romania Salat, Jiri Mihalca, Andrei D. Mihaiu, Marian Modrý, David Ruzek, Daniel Emerg Infect Dis Dispatch 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. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2017-12 /pmc/articles/PMC5708217/ /pubmed/29148377 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2312.170166 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
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Salat, Jiri
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title_fullStr Tick-Borne Encephalitis in Sheep, Romania
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title_short Tick-Borne Encephalitis in Sheep, Romania
title_sort tick-borne encephalitis in sheep, romania
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url 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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