Public health implications of an outbreak of rabies in arctic foxes and reindeer in the Svalbard archipelago, Norway, September 2011

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 16, Issue 40, 2011, Pages

  MacDonald, E ^a   Handeland, K ^b   Blystad, H ^a   Bergsaker, M ^a   Fladberg, M ^a   Gjerset, B ^b   Nilsen, O ^a   Os, H ^c   Sandbu, S ^a   Stokke, E ^d   Vold, L ^a   Orpetveit I ^b   Gaup Amot H ^c   Tveiten, O ^e  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^c Norwegian Food Safety Authority (Mattilsynet)   (Norway)

^d Sysselmannen pa Svalbard   (Norway)

^e Longyearbyen Hospital   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RABIES IMMUNOGLOBULIN; RABIES VACCINE;

ANIMAL CARE; ANIMAL HUNTING; ARTICLE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; FOX; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; NORWAY; POST EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; REINDEER; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ZOONOSIS;

EID: 80054711202     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/ese.16.40.19985-en     Document Type: Article

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