Vaccine coverage, herd immunity and occurrence of canine distemper from 1990-1996 in Finland

Vaccine

Volumn 25, Issue 47, 2007, Pages 7994-7998

  Rikula, Ulla ^a   Nuotio, Lasse ^b   Sihvonen, Liisa ^a  

^a NATL VET AND FOOD RES INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b Centre of Military Medicine   (Finland)

Author keywords

Canine distemper; Herd immunity; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

CANDUR; CANLAN; DISTEMPER VACCINE; DOHYVAC; DURAMUNE; KENNEL COUGH VACCINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VACCINE;

ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; DOG DISEASE; DRUG MARKETING; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; FINLAND; HERD IMMUNITY; INFECTION CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; DISTEMPER; DISTEMPER VIRUS, CANINE; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FINLAND; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; VIRAL VACCINES;

EID: 35448966231     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2007.09.015     Document Type: Article

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