Mortality rate and gross pathology due to tuberculosis in wild brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula) following low dose subcutaneous injection of Mycobacterium bovis

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 109, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 168-175

  Nugent, Graham ^a   Yockney, Ivor ^a   Whitford, Jackie ^a   Cross, Martin L ^a  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Chronic infection; Disease eradication; Infection; Modelling; Mycobacterium bovis; Possum; Survival; Trichosurus vulpecula; Tuberculosis; Wildlife

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHADENITIS; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MORTALITY; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; NEW ZEALAND; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TRICHOSURUS; TUBERCULOSIS; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHADENITIS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; NEW ZEALAND; TRICHOSURUS; TUBERCULOSIS; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; PHALANGERIDAE; TRICHOSURUS; TRICHOSURUS VULPECULA;

EID: 84874286980     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2012.09.008     Document Type: Article

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