A bait-delivered immunocontraceptive vaccine for the European red fox (Vulpes vulpes) by the year 2002?

Reproduction, Fertility and Development

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 111-116

  Bradley, Mark P ^a,b   Hinds, Lyn A ^b   Bird, Peter H ^b  

^a Perth Zoo   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; CONTRACEPTIVE VACCINE;

CONFERENCE PAPER; ECOSYSTEM; FOX; IMMUNOCONTRACEPTION; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PEST CONTROL; POPULATION REGULATION; VACCINATION; WILDLIFE;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS; AUSTRALIA; CONTRACEPTION, IMMUNOLOGIC; FEMALE; FOOD; FOXES; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEST CONTROL; VACCINES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANIDAE; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TYPHIMURIUM; VACCINIA; VACCINIA VIRUS; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 0030914048     PISSN: 10313613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/R96066     Document Type: Conference Paper

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