Caprine brucellosis: A historically neglected disease with significant impact on public health

Caprine brucellosis is a chronic infectious disease caused by the gram-negative cocci-bacillus Brucella melitensis. Middle- to late-term abortion, stillbirths, and the delivery of weak offspring are the characteristic clinical signs of the disease that is associated with an extensive negative impact...

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Published in:	PLoS neglected tropical diseases Vol. 11; no. 8; p. e0005692
Main Authors:	Rossetti, Carlos A, Arenas-Gamboa, Angela M, Maurizio, Estefanía
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States Public Library of Science 01-08-2017 Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subjects:	Abortion Agglutination tests Agricultural economics Animal health Animals Anorexia Biocompatibility Biology and Life Sciences Biomedical materials Brucella melitensis - isolation & purification Brucellosis Brucellosis - epidemiology Brucellosis - veterinary Care and treatment Causes of Chills Cocci Communicable Disease Control - methods Complications Cost of Illness Costs Countries Current distribution Diagnosis Disease control Diseases Distribution Economic impact Endocarditis Epidemiology Farms Fever Global Health Goat Diseases - epidemiology Goat Diseases - transmission Goat's milk Goats Gram-negative cocci Historical account Hosts Humans Infections Infectious diseases Livestock Meat Medicine and Health Sciences Mental depression Milk Morbidity Mortality Myalgia Neglected Diseases - epidemiology Neglected Diseases - veterinary Offspring Outbreaks People and Places Prevalence Productivity Public Health Review Sheep Tropical diseases Veterinary medicine Zoonoses Zoonoses - epidemiology Zoonoses - transmission United States Middle East Latin America Malta
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