Clinical features of avian vacuolar myelinopathy in American coots

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 221, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 80-85

  Larsen, R Scott ^a,b   Nutter, Felicia B ^a   Augspurger, Tom ^c   Rocke, Tonie E ^d   Tomlinson, Lindsay ^a,e   Thomas, Nancy J ^d   Stoskopf, Michael K ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b North Carolina Zoological Park   (United States)

^c Raleigh Field Office   (United States)

^d NATIONAL WILDLIFE HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^e BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANISOCORIA; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; AUTOPSY; AVIAN VACUOLAR MYELINOPATHY; BLINDNESS; BRAIN DISEASE; CELL VACUOLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOWL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NYSTAGMUS; PROPRIOCEPTION; PUPIL REFLEX; REHABILITATION; STRABISMUS; TONGUE; TREMOR; WHITE MATTER; WITHDRAWAL REFLEX;

ANIMALIA; AVES; FULICA AMERICANA; GALLIFORMES; RALLIDAE;

EID: 0036662994     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.2002.221.80     Document Type: Article

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