The initial impact of rabbit hemorrhagic disease on European rabbit populations in South Australia

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 221-227

  Mutze, Greg ^a   Cooke, Brian ^b   Alexander, Peter ^c  

^a Government of South Australia Department of Water Land and Biodiversity Conservation   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c Department of Environment and Natural Resources ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Biological control; Calicivirus; Epidemic; European rabbit; Oryctolagus cuniculus; Rabbit hemorrhagic disease

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; BLOOD; CALICIVIRUS; EPIDEMIC; IMMUNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RABBIT; VIRUS INFECTION;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEMORRHAGIC DISEASE VIRUS, RABBIT; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION CONTROL; POPULATION DENSITY; RABBITS; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0032042218     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-34.2.221     Document Type: Article

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