Rotavirus-associated diarrhoea in foals in Greece

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 144, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 461-465

  Ntafis, V ^a   Fragkiadaki, Eir ^a   Xylouri, E ^a   Omirou, A ^b   Lavazza, A ^c   Martella, V ^d  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Practitioner Veterinarian   (Greece)

^c The Lombardy and Emilia Romagna Experimental Zootechnic Institute   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Diarrhoea; Equine; Greece; Rotavirus

Indexed keywords

CAPSID PROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; DIARRHEA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPIDEMIC; EUROPE; FARM ANIMAL; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GREECE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROTAVIRUS; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS CLASSIFICATION; VIRUS STRAIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; CAPSID PROTEINS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; GREECE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEGATIVE STAINING; ROTAVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS INFECTIONS;

EQUIDAE; EQUINE ROTAVIRUS; MIRIDAE; ROTAVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS A;

EID: 77955565862     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2010.01.020     Document Type: Article

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