Oral rabies vaccination in raccoons: Comparison of ONRAB® and raboral V-RG® vaccine-bait field performance in Québec, Canada and Vermont, USA

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 190-193

  Mainguy, Julien ^a   Fehlner Gardiner, Christine ^b   Slate, Dennis ^c   Rudd, Robert J ^d  

^a MINISTÈRE DES RESSOURCES NATURELLES ET DE LA FAUNE   (Canada)

^b Ottawa Laboratory Fallowfield   (Canada)

^c UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^d WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibody prevalence; Oral rabies vaccination; Procyon lotor; Raccoon; Striped skunk; Vaccine bait

Indexed keywords

RABIES VACCINE; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CANADA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; RABIES; RACCOON; SERODIAGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; MALE; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; QUEBEC; RABIES; RABIES VACCINES; RACCOONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERMONT;

MEPHITIS; MEPHITIS MEPHITIS; PROCYON; PROCYON LOTOR; RABIES VIRUS;

EID: 84872321490     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/2011-11-342     Document Type: Article

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