Serological evidence for the reservoir hosts of cowpox virus in British wildlife

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 185-191

  Crouch, A C ^a   Baxby, D ^a   Mccracken, C M ^a   Gaskell, R M ^a   Bennett, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; COWPOX VIRUS; DEER; FOX; HARE; INSECTIVORE; MAMMAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORTHOPOXVIRUS; RABBIT; RAT; RODENT; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; SQUIRREL; UNITED KINGDOM; VOLE; WILDLIFE; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMAL; ANIMALS, WILD; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; COWPOX; COWPOX VIRUS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; GREAT BRITAIN; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0029080331     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268800058258     Document Type: Article

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