Status of foot-and-mouth disease in Pakistan

Archives of Virology

Volumn 155, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1487-1491

  Jamal, Syed M ^a,b   Ahmed, S ^b   Hussain, Manzoor ^c   Ali, Qurban ^a  

^a National Veterinary Laboratory   (Pakistan)

^b QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^c GTFS//INT/907/ITA (Controlling Trans boundary Animal Diseases in Central Asian Countries)   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BUFFALO; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIC; FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE VIRUS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PREVALENCE; VIROLOGY; BOVINAE; FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE;

ANIMALS; BUFFALOES; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE; FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE VIRUS; PREVALENCE;

ANIMALIA; BOS; BUBALUS; FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE VIRUS;

EID: 77957019931     PISSN: 03048608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00705-010-0732-y     Document Type: Article

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