Quantification of equid herpesvirus 5 dna in clinical and necropsy specimens collected from a horse with equine multinodular pulmonary fibrosis

Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 802-806

  Marenzoni, Maria Luisa ^a   Passamonti, Fabrizio ^a   Lepri, Elvio ^a   Cercone, Marta ^a   Capomaccio, Stefano ^a   Cappelli, Katia ^a   Felicetti, Michela ^a   Coppola, Giacomo ^a   Coletti, Mauro ^a   Thiry, Etienne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Equid herpesvirus 5; equine multinodular pulmonary fibrosis; horses; real time polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HERPES VIRUS INFECTION; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG; LUNG FIBROSIS; MALE; PATHOLOGY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VARICELLOVIRUS; VIROLOGY;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ANIMALS; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; HERPESVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; LUNG; MALE; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VARICELLOVIRUS;

ANIMALIA; EQUID HERPESVIRUS 5; EQUIDAE; HERPESVIRIDAE;

EID: 84857128431     PISSN: 10406387     EISSN: 19434936     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1040638711407890     Document Type: Article

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