enzootic


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of a disease that is constantly present in an animal community but only occurs in a small number of cases

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The raccoon RW is found in 19 states in the eastern United States, but in only several counties in northeast Ohio that border Pennsylvania; Summit County is not considered enzootic for rabies RW.
cookei ticks from the northeastern United States represents a potential risk to humans or a different enzootic cycle of E.
Bovine Leukaemia Virus (BLV) (Retroviridae: Orthoretrovirinae: Deltaretro virus) the causative agent of Enzootic Bovine Leucosis (EBL) is responsible for neoplastic disease and persistent lymphocytosis of cattle (Willems and Kettmann, 2002).
(1) bacterial: Pasteurellosis, Ovine progressive pneumonia, mycoplasmosis, enzootic pneumonia, and caseous lymphadenitis,
Although enzootic amplification is one characteristic of the viruses, some like dengue and chikungunya have lost this requirement and exclusively utilize humans as reservoir and amplification hosts, thus able to cause extensive epidemics.
Enzootic WNV transmission and human WNV disease have been reported from all 48 of the continental United States.
Moreover, enzootic entomopathogenic fungi may also play a role in managing this pest (Elliot et al.
Pfizer therefore proposed to divest a number of vaccine businesses: feline vaccination programmes, cattle vaccines for pasteurellosis and respiratory diseases, swine vaccines for porcine enzootic pneumonia, equine vaccines for influenza and tetanus, and several pharmaceutical areas - sedatives, antibiotics (tetracyclines, penicillins and cephalosporins) and parasiticides, and in one medicinal feed additives area - oral rehydration salts on several national markets.
Nasr El-Din Al-Tantawy, a former epidemiologist at the World Health Organization (WHO), said that the Egyptian government's efforts are not sufficient especially since the virus is now enzootic in the poultry sector.
Third, cultural behaviors of indigenous Amazonians, such as primate hunting and pet-keeping, will be addressed in terms of their role in the perpetuation of the contemporary enzootic cycle of vivax-type malarias.
These infections include chlamydiosis (enzootic abortion of ewes - EAE), toxoplasmosis and listeriosis, which are all common causes of abortion in ewes.
* Differentiate between endemic, enzootic, sporadic, epidemic, epizootic, pandemic, and panzootic diseases