Oral vaccination of captive small Indian mongoose (Herpestes auropunctatus) against rabies

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1033-1036

  Vos, Ad ^a   Kretzschmar, Antje ^a   Ortmann, Steffen ^a   Lojkic, Ivana ^b   Habla, Christiane ^a   Müller, Thomas ^c   Kaiser, Christian ^a   Hundt, Boris ^a   Schuster, Peter ^a  

^a Am Pharmapark   (United Kingdom)

^b CROATIAN VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

^c FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mongoose; Oral vaccination; Rabies; Vaccine bait

Indexed keywords

RABIES VACCINE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; IMMUNOLOGY; MONGOOSE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; RABIES;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; HERPESTIDAE; RABIES; RABIES VACCINES;

EID: 84887044694     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/2013-02-035     Document Type: Article

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