The rabbit as an infection model for equine proliferative enteropathy

Canadian Journal of Veterinary Research

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 110-119

  Sampieri, Francesca ^a   Allen, Andrew L ^a   Pusterla, Nicola ^b   Vannucci, Fabio A ^c   Antonopoulos, Aphroditi J ^a   Ball, Katherine R ^a   Thompson, Julie ^d   Dowling, Patricia M ^a   Hamilton, Don L ^a   Gebhart, Connie J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d CANADIAN LIGHT SOURCE INC   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APPETITE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESULFOVIBRIONACEAE; DESULFOVIBRIONACEAE INFECTION; ENTEROPATHY; EQUINE PROLIFERATIVE ENTEROPATHY; FEMALE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPEROXIDASE STAINING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RABBIT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGY;

ANIMALS; DESULFOVIBRIONACEAE INFECTIONS; ENTERITIS; FECES; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; JEJUNAL DISEASES; JEJUNUM; LAWSONIA BACTERIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RABBITS;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; LAWSONIA INTRACELLULARIS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 84875706337     PISSN: 08309000     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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