Correlation of TBE Incidence with Red Deer and Roe Deer Abundance in Slovenia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Knap, Nataša ^a   Avšič Županc, Tatjana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEER; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RED DEER; ROE DEER; SLOVENIA; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS;

ANIMALS; DEER; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; SLOVENIA;

CAPREOLUS; CERVIDAE; CERVUS ELAPHUS; IXODIDA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84878855523     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066380     Document Type: Article

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