The efficacy of bacille Calmette-Guérin vaccine in wild brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula)

Research in Veterinary Science

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 145-152

  Corner, L A L ^a,c   Norton, S ^a   Buddle, B M ^b   Morris, R S ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b AGRESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE;

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BCG VACCINATION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; MALE; MARSUPIAL; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; NONHUMAN; REVACCINATION; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL;

ALOPIAS; BOVINAE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS BCG; PHALANGERIDAE; TRICHOSURUS; TRICHOSURUS VULPECULA;

EID: 0036796541     PISSN: 00345288     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-5288(02)00038-3     Document Type: Article

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