Seroprevalence of selected disease agents from free-ranging black bears in Florida

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 612-619

  Dunbar, Mike R ^a,b   Cunningham, Mark W ^a   Roof, Jayde C ^a  

^a FLORIDA MARINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b US Fish and Wildlife Service   (United States)

Author keywords

Black bear; Disease; Serologic survey; Ursus americanus floridanus

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADENOVIRUS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BEAR; BLOOD; BLUETONGUE ORBIVIRUS; BRUCELLA; CANINE DISTEMPER MORBILLIVIRUS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COXIELLA BURNETII; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; FEMALE; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; ORBIVIRUS; PARVOVIRUS; PREVALENCE; PSEUDORABIES HERPETOVIRUS; TOXOPLASMA; UNITED STATES;

ADENOVIRUSES, CANINE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BLUETONGUE VIRUS; BRUCELLA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COXIELLA BURNETII; DISTEMPER VIRUS, CANINE; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES; FEMALE; FLORIDA; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; HEMORRHAGIC DISEASE VIRUS, EPIZOOTIC; HERPESVIRUS 1, SUID; MALE; PARVOVIRUS, CANINE; PREVALENCE; TOXOPLASMA; URSIDAE;

EID: 0032110486     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-34.3.612     Document Type: Article

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