Rabies mass vaccination campaigns in Tunisia: Are vaccinated dogs correctly immunized?

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 879-884

  Seghaier, Chedia ^a   Cliquet, Florence ^b   Hammami, Salah ^a   Aouina, Thouraya ^a   Tlatli, Aida ^a   Aubert, Michel ^b  

^a University Tunis El Manar   (Tunisia)

^b Healthy Pigs Production and Experimentation Section   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RABIES VACCINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; RABIES; SEROLOGY; TUNISIA; VACCINATION;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 0033386668     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.1999.61.879     Document Type: Article

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