Acute pasteurellosis in wild big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus)

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 136-139

  Blehert, David S ^a   Maluping, Ramón P ^b   Earl Green, D ^a   Berlowski Zier, Brenda M ^a   Ballmann, Anne E ^a   Langenberg, Julia A ^c,d  

^a NATIONAL WILDLIFE HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b CTDS Veterinary Laboratories   (United Kingdom)

^c WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

^d INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BAT; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LETTER; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MORTALITY; PASTEURELLA MULTOCIDA; PASTEURELLOSIS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; MALE; PASTEURELLA INFECTIONS; PASTEURELLA MULTOCIDA; WISCONSIN;

EID: 84892424674     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/2012-02-063     Document Type: Letter

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