Evaluation of knowledge, attitudes, and practices of deer owners following identification of a cluster of captive deer with rabies in Pennsylvania in July 2010

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 242, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1279-1285

  Tack, Danielle M ^a,b,d   Blanton, Jesse D ^a   Holman, Robert C ^a   Longenberger, Allison H ^b,c   Petersen, Brett W ^a,b   Rupprecht, Charles E ^a,e  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e Erasmus Forum A434   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEER; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRE; RABIES; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; DEER; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PENNSYLVANIA; QUESTIONNAIRES; RABIES;

AVES; CERVIDAE; RABIES VIRUS; SERPENTES;

EID: 84876551979     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.242.9.1279     Document Type: Article

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