Morbillivirus Infections

Infectious Diseases of Wild Mammals and Birds in Europe

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 99-118

  Rijks, Jolianne M ^a   Osterhaus, Albert D M E ^b   Kuiken, Thijs ^b   Frölich, Kai ^c  

^a Dutch Wildlife Health Centre   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c Tierpark Arche Warder ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Canine distemper in carnivores; CD, or La maladie de Carre, acute subacute contagious; CDV transmission, aerosol oral respiratory ocular fluids; CDV, broad host range, order Carnivora susceptible to CDV; Immunohistochemistry, and CDV antigen detection; Morbillivirus genus, of Paramyxoviridae, single stranded RNA; Morbillivirus infections; Morbillivirus, lymphotropic, lymphoid depletion immunosuppression; Multiple species of aquatic mammals, morbillivirus infections; Wildlife from Europe, and CD infections

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887224423     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118342442.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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