Chicken anaemia virus inoculated by the oral route causes lymphocyte depletion in the thymus in 3-week-old and 6-week-old chickens

Avian Pathology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 254-259

  Smyth, J A ^a,b   Moffett, D A ^a   Connor, T J ^a   McNulty, M S ^a  

^a AGRI FOOD AND BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CIRCOVIRIDAE; CIRCOVIRIDAE INFECTION; GERMFREE ANIMAL; GYROVIRUS; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; THYMUS; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AGING; ANIMALS; CHICKEN ANEMIA VIRUS; CHICKENS; CIRCOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTES; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; THYMUS GLAND; VIRUS REPLICATION;

AVES; CHICKEN ANEMIA VIRUS; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 33745048761     PISSN: 03079457     EISSN: 14653338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03079450600717349     Document Type: Article

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