Biologically threatened dolphins and whales

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2833-2834

  di Guardo, Giovanni ^a   Mazzariol, Sandro ^b   Fernández, Antonio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TERAMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CETACEA; HERPES VIRUS; HERPES VIRUS INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LETTER; MEASLES VIRUS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MICROBIOLOGY; MORBILLIVIRUS INFECTION; PARASITOLOGY; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; CETACEA; HERPESVIRIDAE; HERPESVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MORBILLIVIRUS; MORBILLIVIRUS INFECTIONS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRUCELLA; CETACEA; HERPESVIRIDAE; MAMMALIA; MORBILLIVIRUS; PROTOZOA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 80055090189     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02565.x     Document Type: Letter

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