West nile virus in north American birds

Ornithological Monographs

Volumn 60, Issue , 2006, Pages 44-64

  Mclean, Robert G ^a  

^a NATIONAL WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; CENTROCERCUS UROPHASIANUS; CORVIDA; CORVUS BRACHYRHYNCHOS; MOSQUITO-BORNE VIRUSES; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 33947536319     PISSN: 00786594     EISSN: 19412282     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1642/0078-6594(2006)60[44:WNVINA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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