Transmission of Ovine herpesvirus 2 from asymptomaticbboars to sows

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2011-2012

  Costa, Érica Azevedo ^a   Viott, Aline de Marco ^b   Machado, Glauber de Souza ^a   Bomfim, Maria Rosa Quaresma ^a   Coelho, Fabiana Magalhães ^a   Lobato, Zélia Inês Portela ^a   Resende, Mauricio ^a   Guedes, Roberto Mauricio Carvalho ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; GENE SEQUENCE; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HERPES VIRUS; LETTER; MALIGNANT CATARRHAL FEVER; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SOW (SWINE); SWINE; VASCULITIS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS SHEDDING; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTIONS; BRAZIL; CATTLE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; HERPESVIRIDAE; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; MALIGNANT CATARRH; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

EID: 78649554731     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1612.101453     Document Type: Letter

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