Bait delivery for oral rabies vaccine to gray foxes

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 744-751

  Grant Steelman, H ^a,b   Henke, Scott E ^a   Moore, Guy M ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY KINGSVILLE   (United States)

^b Florida Game Fresh Water Fish Community   (United States)

^c TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

Bait; Gray fox; Longevity; Preference; Rabies; Urocyon cineroargenteus; Vaccination program

Indexed keywords

RABIES VACCINE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOX; IMMUNOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODOR; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; RABIES; RACCOON; RANDOMIZATION; STANDARD; TASTE; UNITED STATES; VACCINATION; VIROLOGY;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; FOXES; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODORS; RABIES; RABIES VACCINES; RACCOONS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; TASTE; TEXAS; VACCINATION;

EID: 0034302957     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-36.4.744     Document Type: Article

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