| Document ID (ISN) | 102873 |
| CIS number |
03-1911 |
| ISSN - Serial title |
0339-6517 - Documents pour le médecin du travail |
| Year |
2003 |
| Convention or series no. |
DMT 96 TD 131
|
| Author(s) |
Le Bâcle C. |
| Title |
Current situation with respect to zoonoses: 30th National Symposium of Agricultural Medicine |
| Original title |
L'actualité des zoonoses - XXXe symposium national de médecine agricole [in French] |
| Bibliographic information |
4th Quarter 2003, No.96, p.459-473. |
| Abstract |
The objective of this symposium on zoonoses held on 25 April 2003 in Tours, France, was to discuss the current situation of known zoonoses and to shed light on emerging pathologies. The wide range of participants included medical practitioners from the farmers' cooperative insurance company, occupational physicians, infectologists, veterinarians and biologists. Topics presented and reviewed in this article include: main zoonoses transmitted by farm animals; main zoonoses transmitted by domestic animals; zoonoses from wild animals; current advances in human medicine; Q fever in France and recent epidemics; psittacosis and poultry farming; toxocariasis among humans. |
| Descriptors (primary) |
zoonoses; agriculture; biological hazards |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
France; Q fever; psittacosis; conference; handling of animals; poultry farming; medical treatment; diagnosis |
| Document type |
D - Periodical articles |
| Country / State or Province | France |
| Subject(s) |
Occupational pathology
|
| Broad subject area(s) |
Biological hazards
|
| Browse category(ies) |
Agriculture
Zoonoses
Biological hazards
Bacterial and parasitic diseases
Viral diseases (other than aids)
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