Evaluation of the efficacy provided by a recombinant canarypox-vectored Equine West Nile Virus vaccine against an experimental West Nile Virus intrathecal challenge in horses

Veterinary Therapeutics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 249-256

  Siger, Leonardo ^a   Bowen, Richard ^b   Karaca, Kemal ^a   Murray, Michael ^a   Jagannatha, Shyla ^a   Echols, Brandy ^a   Nordgren, Robert ^a   Minke, Jules M ^a  

^a BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM PHARMA GMBH AND CO KG   (Germany)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY; WEST NILE VACCINE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLOOD; CANARYPOX VIRUS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; MOSQUITO; PATHOGENICITY; RANDOMIZATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIREMIA; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CANARYPOX VIRUS; CULICIDAE; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIREMIA; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS; WEST NILE VIRUS VACCINES;

EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 33845697229     PISSN: 15283593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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