Lumpy skin disease: An African cattle disease getting closer to the EU

Veterinary Record

Volumn 175, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 300-301

  Tuppurainen, Eeva ^a   Oura, Chris ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ANIMAL; BOVINE; EUROPEAN UNION; LUMPY SKIN DISEASE;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; CATTLE; EUROPEAN UNION; LUMPY SKIN DISEASE;

EID: 84907645528     PISSN: 00424900     EISSN: 20427670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/vr.g5808     Document Type: Editorial

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