Bluetongue in Belgium, 2006

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 614-616

  Toussaint, Jean François ^a   Sailleau, Corinne ^b   Mast, Jan ^a   Houdart, Philippe ^c   Czaplicki, Guy ^d   Demeestere, Lien ^a   VandenBussche, Frank ^a   Van Dessel, Wesley ^a   Goris, Nesya ^a   Bréard, Emmanuel ^b   Bounaadja, Lotfi ^b   Thiry, Etienne ^e   Zientara, Stephan ^b   De Clercq, Kris ^a  

^a VETERINARY AND AGROCHEMICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

^b Healthy Pigs Production and Experimentation Section   (France)

^c Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain   (Belgium)

^d Association Régionale de Santé et d'Identification Animales   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; BLUETONGUE ORBIVIRUS; CATTLE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; NONHUMAN; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROTYPE; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN;

EID: 34047118558     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1304.061136     Document Type: Article

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