Seasonal breeding drives the incidence of a chronic bacterial infection in a free-living herbivore population

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 139, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1210-1219

  Pathak, A K ^a   Boag, B ^b   Poss, M ^a   Harvill, E T ^a   Cattadori, I M ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Birch Brae   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antibody optical density index; Bordetella bronchiseptica; European rabbit; host age; mother to litter transmission; seasonality; seroprevalence

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BORDETELLA BRONCHISEPTICA; BORDETELLA BRONCHISEPTICA INFECTION; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INCIDENCE; KITTEN; MALE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ONSET AGE; OPTICAL DENSITY; PREVALENCE; PROGENY; RABBIT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEROLOGY; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BLOOD; BORDETELLOSIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BORDETELLA BRONCHISEPTICA; BORDETELLA INFECTIONS; BREEDING; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MALE; RABBITS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

EID: 80052176003     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268810002311     Document Type: Article

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