Lessons learned and knowledge gaps about the epidemiology and control of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus in North America

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 246, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1304-1317

  Perez, Andres M ^a   Davies, Peter R ^a   Goodell, Christa K ^b,e   Holtkamp, Derald J ^b   Mondaca Fernández, Enrique ^c   Poljak, Zvonimir ^d   Tousignant, Steven J ^a   Valdes Donoso, Pablo ^a   Zimmerman, Jeffrey J ^b   Morrison, Robert B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM VETMEDICA INC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^e IDEXX LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PORCINE RESPIRATORY AND REPRODUCTIVE SYNDROME VIRUS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HEALTH SURVEY; HISTORY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NORTH AMERICA; PIG; PORCINE REPRODUCTIVE AND RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; PORCINE REPRODUCTIVE AND RESPIRATORY SYNDROME VIRUS; TRANSMISSION;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PORCINE REPRODUCTIVE AND RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; PORCINE RESPIRATORY AND REPRODUCTIVE SYNDROME VIRUS; SWINE;

EID: 84931830632     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: 1943569X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.246.12.1304     Document Type: Article

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