Analysis of risk factors for the development of equine protozoal myeloencephalitis in horses

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 217, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1174-1180

  Saville, William J ^a   Reed, Stephen M ^a   Morley, Paul S ^a,c   Granstrom, David E ^b   Kohn, Catherine W ^a   Hinchcliff, Kenneth W ^a   Wittum, Thomas E ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b American Veterinary Medical Association   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; COCCIDIOSIS; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; FEMALE; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; MALE; RISK FACTOR;

ANIMALS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM PROTOZOAL INFECTIONS; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; MALE; RISK FACTORS; SARCOCYSTOSIS;

EID: 0034667220     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.2000.217.1174     Document Type: Article

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