Disseminated intravascular coagulation in a horse with Streptococcus equi subspecies zooepidemicus meningoencephalitis and interstitial pneumonia

Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 344-347

  Pusterla, Nicola ^a   Luff, Jennifer A ^a   Myers, Christine J ^a   Vernau, William ^a   Affolter, Verena K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; FEMALE; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MENINX; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; CEREBELLUM; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; MENINGES; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI;

EQUIDAE; STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI;

EID: 34047163491     PISSN: 08916640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1892/0891-6640(2007)21[344:DICIAH]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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