Virological and molecular biological investigations into equine herpes virus type 2 (EHV-2) experimental infections

Virus Research

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 101-106

  Borchers, Kerstin ^a   Wolfinger, Uta ^a   Ludwig, Hanns ^a   Thein, Peter ^b   Baxi, Shailja ^c   Field, Hugh J ^c   Slater, Josh D ^c  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gammaherpesvirus; Latency; Pathogenicity; Tropism

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; DEXAMETHASONE SODIUM PHOSPHATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONJUNCTIVITIS; COUGHING; HERPES; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HORSE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LYMPHADENOPATHY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BETAHERPESVIRINAE; CELLS, CULTURED; CONJUNCTIVITIS, VIRAL; DEXAMETHASONE; DNA, VIRAL; EYE; HERPESVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; LYMPHOID TISSUE; NERVE TISSUE; NOSE; SKIN; VIRUS SHEDDING;

ANIMALIA; EQUID HERPESVIRUS 2; EQUIDAE; EQUINE HERPESVIRUS 1; EQUUS CABALLUS; HERPES; HERPES VIRUS TYPE 2; HERPESVIRIDAE;

EID: 0031806677     PISSN: 01681702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1702(98)00028-8     Document Type: Article

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