Investigation of Equine Influenza Cases Exhibiting Neurological Disease: Coincidence or Association?

Journal of Comparative Pathology

Volumn 134, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 231-235

  Daly, J M ^a   Whitwell, K E ^a   Miller, J ^a   Dowd, G ^b   Cardwell, J M ^a   Smith, K C ^a  

^a ANIMAL HEALTH TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

encephalitis; equine influenza; horse; influenza; viral infection

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASE; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NOSE MUCOSA; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; BRAIN; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; LECTINS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; EQUINE INFLUENZA VIRUS; EQUUS CABALLUS; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE;

EID: 33645883255     PISSN: 00219975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcpa.2005.09.001     Document Type: Article

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