Integrating Survey and Molecular Approaches to Better Understand Wildlife Disease Ecology

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Cowled, Brendan D ^a   Ward, Michael P ^a   Laffan, Shawn W ^b   Galea, Francesca ^c   Garner, M Graeme ^d   MacDonald, Anna J ^e   Marsh, Ian ^c   Muellner, Petra ^f   Negus, Katherine ^a   Quasim, Sumaiya ^e   Woolnough, Andrew P ^g   Sarre, Stephen D ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c NSW DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^d Office of the Chief Veterinary Officer   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^f Epi interactive Ltd   (New Zealand)

^g DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL SALMONELLOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENOTYPE; INFECTION RISK; MALE; MOLECULAR ECOLOGY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION GENETICS; PREVALENCE; RELATIVE DENSITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SWINE; WILDLIFE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; AUSTRALIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; ECOLOGY; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

SALMONELLA; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 84867172481     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046310     Document Type: Article

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