Contact rate and risk of rabies spread between medium-sized carnivores in southeast Finland

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 348-357

  Kauhala, Kaarina ^a   Holmala, Katja ^b  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b NONE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARNIVORE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISEASE SPREAD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE VECTOR; HOME RANGE; RABIES; RADIOTELEMETRY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

CANIDAE; FELIS CATUS; MELES MELES; NYCTEREUTES PROCYONOIDES; TAXIDIINAE; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 33748792046     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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