A Retrospective Economic Analysis of the Ontario Red Fox Oral Rabies Vaccination Programme

Zoonoses and Public Health

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 169-177

  Shwiff, S A ^a   Nunan, C P ^b   Kirkpatrick, K N ^a   Shwiff, S S ^c  

^a NATIONAL WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY COMMERCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Canada; Cost benefit analysis; Economics; Foxes Vulpes; Rabies; Rabies vaccine

Indexed keywords

RABIES VACCINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; FOX; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH PROGRAM; INFECTION PREVENTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VACCINATION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FOXES; HUMANS; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; ONTARIO; POST-EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS; RABIES; RABIES VACCINES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

ANIMALIA; CANIDAE; VULPES; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 79953754674     PISSN: 18631959     EISSN: 18632378     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1863-2378.2010.01335.x     Document Type: Article

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