Postal questionnaire survey of scrapie in sheep flocks in Ireland

Veterinary Record

Volumn 155, Issue 16, 2004, Pages 493-494

  Healy, A M ^a   Morgan, K L ^c   Hannon, D ^b   Collins, J D ^a   Weavers, E ^d   Doherty, M L ^a  

^a Faculty of Veterinary Medicine

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d CENTRAL VETERINARY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EXPERIENCE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HERD; HUMAN; IRELAND; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; POSTAL MAIL; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZATION; SCRAPIE; SHEEP DISEASE;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 7244261799     PISSN: 00424900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/vr.155.16.493     Document Type: Article

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