Contact rates between wild and domestic canids: No evidence of parvovirus or canine distemper virus in crab-eating foxes

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 9-19

  Courtenay, O ^a   Quinnell, R J ^b   Chalmers, W S K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c Intervet (UK) Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cerdocyon thous; Contact rates; Distemper virus; Dog; Fox; Parvovirus; Reservoir; Transmission; Wildlife disease

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CANINE DISTEMPER MORBILLIVIRUS; CRAB; DIARRHEA; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; FOX; NONHUMAN; PARVOVIRUS; SEROPREVALENCE; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WILDLIFE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMAL DISEASES; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BRAZIL; DISTEMPER; DISTEMPER VIRUS, CANINE; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FOXES; PARVOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; PARVOVIRUS; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS; TELEMETRY;

CANIDAE; CANINE DISTEMPER VIRUS; CANINE PARVOVIRUS; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CANIS LUPUS; CERDOCYON; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); DISTEMPER VIRUS; DUSICYON THOUS; PARVOVIRUS;

EID: 0035800259     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1135(01)00326-1     Document Type: Article

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