The absence of anti-rabies antibody in the sera of feral raccoons (Procyon lotor) captured in Hokkaido, Japan

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 110-112

  Inoue, Satoshi ^a,b   Asano, Makoto ^c   Motoi, Yurie ^b   Makino, Takashi ^d   Yamada, Akio ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Kanagawa Prefecture Natural Environment Conservation   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; RABIES IMMUNOGLOBULIN; RABIES VACCINE;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; JAPAN; MONITORING; NONHUMAN; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; RACCOON; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECIES ENDEMICITY; WILDLIFE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; MALE; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; PREVALENCE; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; RACCOONS;

EID: 4143061598     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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