Experimental transmission of a ranavirus disease of common toads (Bufo bufo) to common frogs (Rana temporaria)

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 135, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1213-1216

  Cunningham, A A ^a   Hyatt, A D ^b   Russell, P ^c   Bennett, P M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLEEDING DISORDER; FROG; IRIDOVIRUS; NONHUMAN; SKIN ULCER; TOAD; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; BUFO BUFO; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA VIRUS INFECTIONS; GREAT BRITAIN; HEMORRHAGE; RANA TEMPORARIA; RANAVIRUS; SKIN ULCER;

EID: 34748814933     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268807007935     Document Type: Article

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