Clinical signs and clinicopathologic abnormalities in dogs with clinical spirocercosis: 39 Cases (1996-2004)

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 228, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1063-1067

  Mylonakis, Mathios E ^a   Rallis, Tim ^a   Koutinas, Alexander F ^a   Leontides, Leonidas S ^b   Patsikas, Michail ^a   Florou, Marianna ^b   Papadopoulos, Elias ^a   Fytianou, Anna ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE;

ANEMIA; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DOG; EHRLICHIOSIS; ENDOSCOPY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; FOOD REGURGITATION; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HYPERSALIVATION; LEISHMANIASIS; LEUKOCYTOSIS; NONHUMAN; ODYNOPHAGIA; PARASITE; PARASITOSIS; PATHOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SPIROCERCA LUPI; SPIROCERCOSIS;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; SPIROCERCA LUPI;

EID: 33645462304     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.228.7.1063     Document Type: Review

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