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Blue Wildebeest and the Ætiological Agent of Bovine Malignant Catarrhal Fever

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PLOWRIGHT, W., FERRIS, R. & SCOTT, G. Blue Wildebeest and the Ætiological Agent of Bovine Malignant Catarrhal Fever. Nature 188, 1167–1169 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/1881167a0

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