Pathogens of house mice on arid Boullanger Island and subantarctic Macquarie Island, Australia

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 762-771

  Moro, D ^a   Lawson, M A ^b   Hobbs, R P ^c   Thompson, R C A ^c  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

ELISA; House mouse; Islands; Murine cytomegalovirus; Mus domesticus; Parasites; Pathogens; Serologic survey

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS VIRUS; MOUSE CYTOMEGALOVIRUS 1; MURINAE; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS; MUS MUSCULUS DOMESTICUS; PARVOVIRUS; THEILER'S ENCEPHALOMYELITIS VIRUS;

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BLOOD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MOUSE; PARASITOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RODENT DISEASE; VIRUS; VIRUS INFECTION; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; PARASITIC DISEASES, ANIMAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RODENT DISEASES; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; VIRUS DISEASES; VIRUSES; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 2942692096     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-39.4.762     Document Type: Article

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