Aggression and rabid coyotes, Massachusetts, USA

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 357-359

  Wang, Xingtai ^a   Brown, Catherine M ^a   Smole, Sandra ^a   Werner, Barbara G ^a   Han, Linda ^a   Farris, Michael ^a   DeMaria, Alfred ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COYOTE; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; RABIES VIRUS; RURAL AREA; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; COYOTES; ENDEMIC DISEASES; HUMANS; MASSACHUSETTS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS;

EID: 76149109437     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1602.090731     Document Type: Letter

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