Equine herpesvirus type 9 in giraffe with encephalitis

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1948-1949

  Kasem, Samy ^a   Yamada, Souichi ^a   Kiupel, Matti ^b   Woodruff, Mary ^c   Ohya, Kenji ^a   Fukushi, Hideto ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMERASE; GLYCOPROTEIN B; GLYCOPROTEIN D; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS GLYCOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL TISSUE; EQUINE HERPES VIRUS; EQUINE HERPES VIRUS TYPE 9; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GIRAFFE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LETTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS ISOLATION; ZOO ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ENCEPHALITIS, VIRAL; HERPESVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; RUMINANTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARICELLOVIRUS;

EID: 57049138861     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1412.080801     Document Type: Letter

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