Lawsonia intracellularis-like organism infection in a miniature foal

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 215, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 511-514

  Brees, Dominique J ^a,b   Sondhoff, Axel H ^a   Kluge, John P ^a   Andreasen, Claire B ^a   Brown, Christopher M ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FATALITY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GASTROENTERITIS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SMALL INTESTINE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE, SMALL; LUNG; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 0033566449     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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