Impaired immunity in harbour seals (phoca vitulina) fed environmentally contaminated herring

Veterinary Quarterly

Volumn 18, Issue , 1996, Pages 127-128

  Osterhaus, A D M E ^b,e   Ross, P S ^a,c  

^a Seal Rehabilitation and Research Centre   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^e UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BLOOD; CANINE DISTEMPER MORBILLIVIRUS; DIET; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DOG DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; EUROPE; IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEASLES VIRUS; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PATHOLOGY; PHOCA; REVIEW; SEA FOOD; STANDARD; T LYMPHOCYTE; VIRUS INFECTION; WATER POLLUTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; DIET; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; DISTEMPER; DISTEMPER VIRUS, CANINE; EUROPE; FISH PRODUCTS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MORBILLIVIRUS; MORBILLIVIRUS INFECTIONS; PESTICIDES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SEALS, EARLESS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 0002016721     PISSN: 01652176     EISSN: 18755941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01652176.1996.9694711     Document Type: Article

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