Distemper: Not a new disease in lions and tigers

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 180-184

  Myers, Denise L ^a   Zurbriggen, Andreas ^b   Lutz, Hans ^a   Pospischil, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANINE DISTEMPER MORBILLIVIRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIGER;

EID: 0030891061     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/cdli.4.2.180-184.1997     Document Type: Article

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