Evaluation of risk factors associated with clinical improvement and survival of horses with equine protozoal myeloencephalitis

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 217, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1181-1185

  Saville, William J ^a   Morley, Paul S ^a,c   Reed, Stephen M ^a   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; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; COCCIDIOSIS; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; FEMALE; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM PROTOZOAL INFECTIONS; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SARCOCYSTOSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034667237     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.2000.217.1181     Document Type: Article

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