Cytauxzoon felis infection in cats in the mid-Atlantic states: 34 Cases (1998-2004)

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 228, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 568-571

  Birkenheuer, Adam J ^a   Le, Jaime A ^a   Valenzisi, Amy M ^a   Tucker, Melissa D ^a   Levy, Michael G ^a   Breitschwerdt, Edward B ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ATLANTIC ISLANDS; AUTOPSY; CAT DISEASE; CYTAUXZOON FELIS; FEVER; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; JAUNDICE; NONHUMAN; PANCYTOPENIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SPRING; SUMMER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAT DISEASES; CATS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; MALE; NORTH CAROLINA; PIROPLASMIDA; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEASONS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SOUTH CAROLINA; VIRGINIA;

ANIMALIA; CYTAUXZOON FELIS; FELIDAE; FELIS;

EID: 32544440616     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.228.4.568     Document Type: Review

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