Transmission of feline calicivirus via the cat flea (Ctenocephalides felis)

Parasitology Research

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 185-189

  Mencke, N ^a   Vobis, M ^b   Mehlhorn, H ^b   Dhaese J ^b   Rehagen, M ^a   Mangold Gehring, S ^a   Truyen, U ^c  

^a BAYER AG   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CTENOCEPHALIDES; FECES ANALYSIS; INOCULATION; KITTEN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SEROCONVERSION; THROAT CULTURE; VESIVIRUS; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; BLOOD; CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CALICIVIRUS, FELINE; CAT DISEASES; CATS; CELL LINE; DISEASE VECTORS; FECES; FLEAS; PHARYNX;

BOVINAE; CTENOCEPHALIDES FELIS; FELIDAE; FELINE CALICIVIRUS; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS);

EID: 67649631217     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-009-1381-5     Document Type: Article

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