Immune-mediated erythroid and megakaryocytic aplasia in a cat

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 230, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1024-1027

  Zini, Eric ^a   Hauser, Beat ^a   Meli, Marina L ^a   Glaus, Tony M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTOR; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; PREDNISOLONE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BONE MARROW CELL; CASE REPORT; CAT; CAT DISEASE; CYTOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; PURE RED CELL ANEMIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BONE MARROW CELLS; CAT DISEASES; CATS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; PREDNISOLONE; RED-CELL APLASIA, PURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; CANDIDATUS MYCOPLASMA HAEMOMINUTUM; EHRLICHIA CANIS; FELIDAE; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA HAEMOFELIS;

EID: 34047134506     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.230.7.1024     Document Type: Article

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