Bovine leukemia virus-induced clinical signs and morphological changes of encephalitozoonosis in rabbits

Folia Parasitologica

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 249-254

  Levkut, Mikuláš ^a   Lešnik, František ^a   Báient, Pavol ^a   Zajac, Vladimír ^b   Korim, Peter ^a   Sláviková, Katarína ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Slovakia)

^b CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Bovine leukemia virus; Encephalitozoon; Immunohistochemistry; Microsporidia; Pathogenesis; Rabbits

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BOVINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; CATTLE; CHINCHILLA; DISEASE MODEL; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOLOGY; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; PROVIRUS; RABBIT;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CATTLE; CHINCHILLA; DELTARETROVIRUS INFECTIONS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA, VIRAL; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENCEPHALITOZOONOSIS; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LEUKEMIA VIRUS, BOVINE; LUNG; MALE; NEPHRITIS, INTERSTITIAL; PROVIRUSES; RABBITS;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; BOVINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; ENCEPHALITOZOON; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MICROSPORIDIA; MICROSPORIDIUM; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 2642618599     PISSN: 00155683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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