Exposure of rabbits to ultraviolet light-inactivated rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus (RHDV) and subsequent challenge with virulent virus

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 133, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 731-735

  Henning, J ^a,b   Meers, J ^b   Davies, P R ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; CALICIVIRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; INOCULATION; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; PROTECTION; RABBIT; RADIATION DOSE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VIRUS IMMUNITY; VIRUS INACTIVATION; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC DISEASE VIRUS, RABBIT; MALE; RABBITS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL RATE; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; VACCINES, INACTIVATED; VIRAL VACCINES; VIRULENCE;

EID: 22544460548     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268805003754     Document Type: Article

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