Chapter 8 Zoonoses in Wildlife. Integrating Ecology into Management

Advances in Parasitology

Volumn 68, Issue , 2009, Pages 185-209

  Mathews, Fiona ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BAT; BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECOLOGY; EUROPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOST; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABIES VIRUS; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WILDLIFE; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; BOVINAE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANIMALS, WILD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; ECOSYSTEM; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 61949298947     PISSN: 0065308X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-308X(08)00608-8     Document Type: Review

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