A Retrospective Study of Neurological Disease in 118 Rabbits

Journal of Comparative Pathology

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 31-37

  Gruber, A ^a   Pakozdy, A ^b   Weissenbock H ^a   Csokai, J ^b   Kunzel F ^b  

^a Institute of Pathology and Forensic Veterinary Medicine   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

encephalitozoonosis; herpes simplex virus encephalitis; neurological disease; rabbit; zoonosis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; FEMALE; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; MALE; METABOLIC DISORDER; NERVOUS SYSTEM INFLAMMATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURY; NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; RABBIT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VASCULAR DISEASE; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; CEREBRUM; ENCEPHALITIS, HERPES SIMPLEX; ENCEPHALITOZOONOSIS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NEURITIS; RABBITS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

ANIMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; SIMPLEXVIRUS;

EID: 58149242451     PISSN: 00219975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcpa.2008.09.009     Document Type: Article

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