Assessment of the risk of inadvertently exporting from Australia a genetically modified immunocontraceptive virus in live mice (Mus musculus domesticus)

Wildlife Research

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 540-554

  Williams, C K ^a,b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EXPORT; GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM; RISK ASSESSMENT; RODENT; VIRAL DISEASE; VIRUS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; MURID HERPESVIRUS 1; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS DOMESTICUS;

EID: 37149036176     PISSN: 10353712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WR05028     Document Type: Article

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