Resolution of Mycobacterium bovis infection in wild brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula)

New Zealand Veterinary Journal

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 40-42

  Corner, L A L ^a   Norton, S ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; TUBERCULIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AUTOPSY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LETTER; LIVER; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUNG; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; NONHUMAN; SPLEEN; TISSUE SECTION; TRICHOSURUS VULPECULA; TUBERCULOSIS;

ALOPIAS; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; PHALANGERIDAE; TRICHOSURUS; TRICHOSURUS VULPECULA;

EID: 0037301255     PISSN: 00480169     EISSN: 11760710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00480169.2003.36329     Document Type: Article

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