Idiopathic acute onset myelopathy in cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) cubs

Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 36-46

  Walzer, Christian ^a   Url, Angelika ^b   Robert, Nadia ^b,c   Kübber Heiss, Anna ^b   Nowotny, Norbert ^d   Schmidt, Peter ^b  

^a Zoo Salzburg   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^c Institute for Animal Pathology   (Switzerland)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Acinonyx jubatus, demyelination; Cheetah; CNS; Copper; Myelopathy; Neurologic disease; Pathology

Indexed keywords

ACINONYX JUBATUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; AUSTRIA; CHEETAH; DISEASE COURSE; EYE DISEASE; FEMALE; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEWBORN; NOSE DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ZOO ANIMAL;

ACINONYX; ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANIMALS, ZOO; ATAXIA; AUSTRIA; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EYE DISEASES; FEMALE; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NOSE DISEASES; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DISEASES;

EID: 0038605512     PISSN: 10427260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1638/1042-7260(2003)34[0036:IAOMIC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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