At-risk individuals in Feline Immunodeficiency Virus epidemiology: Evidence from a multivariate approach in a natural population of domestic cats (Felis catus)

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 227-236

  Courchamp, F ^a,c   Yoccoz, N G ^a,d   Artois, M ^b   Pontier, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b Healthy Pigs Production and Experimentation Section   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

AGE; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CAT; FELINE IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; FEMALE; INFECTION RISK; MALE; NONHUMAN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; CAT DISEASES; CATS; FEMALE; IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS, FELINE; LENTIVIRUS INFECTIONS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0031668594     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268898008875     Document Type: Article

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