Arboviruses in Birds

Infectious Diseases of Wild Birds

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 17-62

  McLean, Robert G ^a   Ubico, Sonya R ^b  

^a NATIONAL WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Arboviruses; Hosts; Japanese encephalitis; Taxonomic relationships; Vertebrates

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889321462     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470344668.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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