Old enemies, still with us after all these years

ILAR Journal

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 291-302

  Clifford, Charles B ^a   Watson, Julie ^b,c  

^a CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology ^*

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Mouse hepatitis virus; Parvovirus; Pinworms; Rodents; Rotavirus; Theiler's murine encephalomyelitis virus (TMEV)

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ENTEROBIUS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOUSE; MURINE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS VIRUS; MURINE HEPATITIS CORONAVIRUS; PARASITOLOGY; PARVOVIRUS; RODENT DISEASE; ROTAVIRUS; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ENTEROBIUS; MICE; MURINE HEPATITIS VIRUS; PARVOVIRUS; RODENT DISEASES; ROTAVIRUS; THEILOVIRUS;

EID: 58149343999     PISSN: 10842020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ilar.49.3.291     Document Type: Review

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