Rabies vaccination targets for stray dog populations

Frontiers in Veterinary Science

Volumn 4, Issue APR, 2017, Pages

  Leung, Tiffany ^a,b   Davis, Stephen A ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Canine rabies; Dog rabies; Infectious disease modeling; Mathematical model; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

EID: 85038852857     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22971769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fvets.2017.00052     Document Type: Article

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