The effect of combined rotavirus and Escherichia coli infections in rabbits

Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 381-385

  Thouless, Margaret E ^a,b   DiGiacomo, Ronald F ^b   Deeb, Barbara J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; NONHUMAN; RABBIT; ROTAVIRUS; SERODIAGNOSIS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS INFECTION;

AGING; ANIMALS; DIARRHEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FECES; RABBITS; ROTAVIRUS INFECTIONS; WEANING;

EID: 0029841193     PISSN: 00236764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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