Efficacy of bait distributional strategies to deliver canine rabies vaccines to coyotes in Southern Texas

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 23-32

  Farry, Shawn C ^a   Henke, Scott E ^a   Beasom, Sam L ^a   Fearneyhough, M Gayne ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY KINGSVILLE   (United States)

^b TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

Bait; Canis latrans; Coyote; Density; Longevity; Rabies; Vaccination program

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; DYES, REAGENTS, INDICATORS, MARKERS AND BUFFERS; FLUORESCENT DYE; RABIES VACCINE; RHODAMINE; RHODAMINE B; TETRACYCLINE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANT; ARTICLE; CARNIVORA; METHODOLOGY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; RABBIT; RABIES; SEASON; SIGMODONTINAE; TIME; UNITED STATES; VACCINATION; WILD ANIMAL;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTS; CARNIVORA; FLUORESCENT DYES; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; RABBITS; RABIES; RABIES VACCINES; RHODAMINES; SEASONS; SIGMODONTINAE; TETRACYCLINE; TEXAS; TIME FACTORS; VACCINATION;

EID: 0031613286     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-34.1.23     Document Type: Article

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