Antibody Responses to Psoroptes sp. Mites in Dall Sheep (Ovis dalli)

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 711-713

  Boyce, Walter M ^a   Zarnke, Randall L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ALASKA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Mites; Ovis sp. Psoroptes sp.; Serology

Indexed keywords

ACARI; OVIS ARIES; OVIS CANADENSIS; OVIS DALLI; OVIS SP.; PSOROPTES SP.; UNGULATA;

ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; IMMUNOLOGY; INFESTATION; MITE; PREVALENCE; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE; UNITED STATES; WILD ANIMAL;

ALASKA; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ANTIBODIES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; MITE INFESTATIONS; MITES; PREVALENCE; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES;

EID: 0030251818     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-32.4.711     Document Type: Article

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