Assessing the Costs and Benefits of an Oral Vaccine for Raccoon Rabies: A Possible Model

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 343-349

  Meltzer, Martin I ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RABIES VACCINE; VACCINE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST CONTROL; ECONOMICS; IMMUNOLOGY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; RABIES; RACCOON; STATISTICAL MODEL; VIROLOGY; WILD ANIMAL;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; COST SAVINGS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; MODELS, ECONOMIC; RABIES; RABIES VACCINES; RACCOONS; VACCINES;

EID: 0030254920     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0204.960411     Document Type: Article

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