Emerging epidemic diseases of frogs in Britain are dependent on the source of ranavirus agent and the route of exposure

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 135, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1200-1212

  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

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Indexed keywords

AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLEEDING DISORDER; EPIDEMIC; FROG; IRIDOVIRUS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; SKIN ULCER; UNITED KINGDOM; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA VIRUS INFECTIONS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GREAT BRITAIN; HEMORRHAGE; RANA TEMPORARIA; RANAVIRUS; SKIN ULCER;

EID: 34748891774     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268806007679     Document Type: Article

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