Editorial: Conservation: Clarifying the risk from herpesvirus to captive Asian elephants

Veterinary Record

Volumn 170, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 202-203

  Hayward, Gary S ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELEPHAS MAXIMUS; HERPESVIRIDAE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ELEPHANT; FEMALE; HERPES VIRUS; HERPES VIRUS INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; NOTE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ELEPHANTS; FEMALE; HERPESVIRIDAE; HERPESVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; MALE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84857822671     PISSN: 00424900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/vr.e1212     Document Type: Editorial

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