Influence of communal alpine pasturing on the spread of pestiviruses among sheep and goats in Austria: First identification of border disease virus in Austria

Zoonoses and Public Health

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 209-213

  Krametter Froetscher, R ^a   Kohler, H ^a   Benetka, V ^a   Moestl, K ^a   Golja, F ^b   Vilcek, S ^c   Baumgartner, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b JOANNEUM RESEARCH   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Border disease virus; Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay; Goat; Pestiviruses; Polymerase chain reaction; Sheep

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BLOOD; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENETICS; GOAT; GOAT DISEASE; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; PESTIVIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; AUSTRIA; BORDER DISEASE; BORDER DISEASE VIRUS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES;

ANIMALIA; BORDER DISEASE VIRUS; BORDER DISEASE VIRUS 3; BORNA DISEASE VIRUS; CAPRA HIRCUS; OVIS ARIES; PESTIVIRUS;

EID: 34249790313     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1863-2378.2007.01049.x     Document Type: Article

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