Environmental and human demographic features associated with epizootic raccoon rabies in Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 869-874

  Jones, Meghan E ^a   Curns, Aaron T ^b   Krebs, John W ^b   Childs, James E ^b  

^a Northeast Health District ^*  (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Epizootic; Procyon lotor; Rabies; Raccoons

Indexed keywords

PROCYON; PROCYON LOTOR;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; DISEASE CARRIER; ENVIRONMENT; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; RACCOON; RISK; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MARYLAND; ODDS RATIO; PENNSYLVANIA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; RACCOONS; RISK FACTORS; VIRGINIA;

EID: 2942694277     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-39.4.869     Document Type: Article

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