Serologic survey for phocid herpesvirus-1 and -2 in marine mammals from Alaska and Russia

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 459-465

  Zarnke, Randall L ^a   Harder, Timm C ^b,c   Vos, Helma W ^d   Ver Hoef, Jay M ^a   Osterhaus, Albert D M E ^b  

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

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^d Seal Rehabilitation and Research Centre   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Marine mammals; Phocid herpesvirus; Serology; Survey

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

AGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HERPES VIRUS; HERPES VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; PHOCA; PREVALENCE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEAL; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; ALASKA; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; FEMALE; HERPESVIRIDAE; HERPESVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; PREVALENCE; SEALS, EARLESS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; SIBERIA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WALRUSES;

EID: 0031173811     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-33.3.459     Document Type: Review

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