Age- and sex-specific mortality patterns in an emerging wildlife epidemic: The phocine distemper in european harbour seals

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Härkönen, Tero ^a   Harding, Karin ^b   Rasmussen, Thomas Dau ^c   Teilmann, Jonas ^c   Dietz, Rune ^c  

^a SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EPIDEMIC; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION RISK; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MALE; MEASLES VIRUS; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PROGENY; RISK FACTOR; SEAL; SEX DETERMINATION; VIRUS IMMUNITY; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS VIRULENCE; WILDLIFE; AGE; ANIMAL; CANINE DISTEMPER; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PHOCA; SEX DIFFERENCE; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALIA; PHOCA VITULINA VITULINA; PHOCINE DISTEMPER VIRUS;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; DISTEMPER; DISTEMPER VIRUS, PHOCINE; EUROPE; FEMALE; MALE; PHOCA; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 41149124392     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000887     Document Type: Article

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