Leptospirosis: An Infectious Emerging Waterborne Zoonosis of Global Significance
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Copyright: © 2017 Pal M, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Leptospirosis: An Infectious Emerging Waterborne Zoonosis of Global Significance Mahendra Pal1* and Angesom Hadush2 1Ex-Professor of Veterinary Public Health, Addis Ababa University (UNDP), Ethiopia 2College of Veterinary Medicine, Samara University, Samara, Ethiopia
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