Kitten mortality in the United Kingdom: A retrospective analysis of 274 histopathological examinations (1986 to 2000)

Veterinary Record

Volumn 151, Issue 17, 2002, Pages 497-501

  Cave, T A ^a   Thompson, H ^a   Reid, S W J ^a   Hodgson, D R ^a   Addie, D D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CALICIVIRUS; CAT; CAT DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HERPES VIRUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PARVOVIRUS; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PICORNAVIRUS INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL; UNITED KINGDOM; VIRUS INFECTION; WEANING;

ANIMALIA; CALICIVIRIDAE; FELIDAE; FELINE HERPESVIRUS 1; FELINE PARVOVIRUS; FELIS CATUS; HERPES; HERPESVIRIDAE; PARVOVIRUS; PICORNAVIRIDAE;

EID: 0037180231     PISSN: 00424900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/vr.151.17.497     Document Type: Article

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