Epidemiology of bovine brucellosis in Costa Rica: Lessons learned from failures in the control of the disease.

Brucellosis, caused by Brucella abortus is a major disease of cattle and a zoonosis. In order to estimate the bovine brucellosis prevalence in Costa Rica (CR), a total 765 herds (13078 bovines) from six regions of CR were randomly sampled during 2012-2013. A non-random sample of 7907 herds (532199 b...

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Main Authors: Gabriela Hernández-Mora, Nazareth Ruiz-Villalobos, Roberto Bonilla-Montoya, Juan-José Romero-Zúniga, Julio Jiménez-Arias, Rocío González-Barrientos, Elías Barquero-Calvo, Carlos Chacón-Díaz, Norman Rojas, Esteban Chaves-Olarte, Caterina Guzmán-Verri, Edgardo Moreno
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0182380&type=printable
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