Epidemiology, pathology, and genetic analysis of A canine distemper epidemic in namibia

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1008-1020

  Gowtage Sequelra, Sonya ^a   Banyard, Ashley C ^b   Barrett, Tom ^b   Buczkowskl, Hubert ^b   Funk, Stephan M ^c   Cleaveland, Sarah ^d  

^a VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

^c Nature Heritage   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Black backed jackal; Canine distemper virus; Canis mesomelas; Domestic dog; Epidemic; Hemagglutinin gene; Phosphoprotein gene; Sequence analysis

Indexed keywords

CANIDAE; CANINE DISTEMPER VIRUS; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CANIS MESOMELAS; MORBILLIVIRUS;

VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CANINE DISTEMPER; CANINE DISTEMPER MORBILLIVIRUS; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOG; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; JACKAL; MALE; NAMIBIA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VIROLOGY; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANIMALS, WILD; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BASE SEQUENCE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISTEMPER; DISTEMPER VIRUS, CANINE; DOGS; FEMALE; JACKALS; MALE; NAMIBIA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 75349107935     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-45.4.1008     Document Type: Article

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