Questionnaire survey about the motives of commercial livestock farmers and hobby holders to vaccinate their animals against Bluetongue virus serotype 8 in 2008-2009 in the Netherlands

Vaccine

Volumn 28, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 2473-2481

  Elbers, A R W ^a   de Koeijer, A A ^a   Scolamacchia, F ^a   van Rijn, P A ^b  

^a ID Lelystad   (Netherlands)

^b Mammalian Virology Group   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bluetongue; Incentives; Motives; Questionnaire survey; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

BLUETONGUE ORBIVIRUS VACCINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS VACCINE;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; BLUETONGUE ORBIVIRUS; BLUETONGUE ORBIVIRUS TYPE 8; CATTLE; DAIRYING; DRUG COST; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INFORMATION; DRUG SAFETY; GOAT; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LEISURE; LIVESTOCK; NETHERLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEROTYPE; SHEEP; VACCINATION; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; BLUETONGUE; BLUETONGUE VIRUS; CATTLE; DATA COLLECTION; GOATS; HUMANS; NETHERLANDS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SHEEP; VACCINATION; VIRAL VACCINES;

EID: 77649192187     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2010.01.047     Document Type: Article

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