Plague in free-ranging mammals in western North Dakota

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 600-602

  Dyer, N W ^a   Huffman, L E ^b  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Badger; Canis latrans; Coyote; Plague; Survey; Taxidea taxus; Yersinia pestis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANIDAE; CANIS LATRANS; MAMMALIA; PROCYON; PROCYON LOTOR; TAXIDEA TAXUS; TAXIDIINAE; TAXUS; YERSINIA PESTIS;

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CARNIVORA; HEMAGGLUTINATION INHIBITION TEST; HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST; IMMUNOLOGY; PLAGUE; RACCOON; UNITED STATES; WILD ANIMAL; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CARNIVORA; HEMAGGLUTINATION INHIBITION TESTS; HEMAGGLUTINATION TESTS; NORTH DAKOTA; PLAGUE; RACCOONS; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 0033161349     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-35.3.600     Document Type: Article

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