Analyzing Disease Risks Associated with Translocations

Conservation Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 442-452

  Sainsbury, Anthony W ^a   Vaughan Higgins, Rebecca J ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disease; Disease Risk Analysis; Reintroduction; Risk Assessment

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; AVIAN INFLUENZA; DISEASE INCIDENCE; DOMESTIC SPECIES; HEALTH MONITORING; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNITY; MOVEMENT; PARASITIC DISEASE; PATHOGEN; PATHOGENICITY; PROBABILITY; REINTRODUCTION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRANSLOCATION; WATERFOWL;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIRD; BIRD DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EVALUATION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; INTRODUCED SPECIES; METHODOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMAL DISEASES; ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENGLAND; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ANIMALIA; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS; COCCIDIA; CYATHOSTOMA; GRUS GRUS; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; SYNGAMUS; TETRAMERES;

EID: 84861182842     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2012.01839.x     Document Type: Article

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