Infection of pigs in Ireland with lymphotropic γ-herpesviruses and relationship to postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 116, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 60-68

  McMahon, Kenneth J ^a   Minihan, Donal ^b   Campion, Eva M ^a   Loughran, Sinéad T ^a   Allan, Gordon ^c   McNeilly, Francis ^c   Walls, Dermot ^a  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^b Department of Agriculture and Food Abbotstown ^*  (Ireland)

^c AGRI FOOD AND BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Herpesvirus; PCV2; Pig; Postweaning mutlisystemic wasting syndrome

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CIRCOVIRIDAE; CIRCOVIRUS 2; GEOGRAPHY; HERPES VIRUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IRELAND; LYMPHOID TISSUE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORCINE LYMPHOTROPIC HERPESVIRUS; PORCINE LYMPHOTROPIC HERPESVIRUS 2; PORCINE LYMPHOTROPIC HERPESVIRUS 3; SPLEEN; SWINE; VIRUS INFECTION; WASTING SYNDROME; WEANING;

ANIMALS; CIRCOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CIRCOVIRUS; GAMMAHERPESVIRINAE; HERPESVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; IRELAND; PREVALENCE; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; WASTING SYNDROME; WEANING;

ANIMALIA; PORCINE CIRCOVIRUS 2; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA; SUS SCROFA DOMESTICA;

EID: 33746303038     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2006.03.022     Document Type: Article

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