Ability of veterinary pathologists to diagnose classical swine fever from clinical signs and gross pathological findings

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 66, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 239-246

  Elbers, A R W ^a,b   Vos, J H ^b   Bouma, A ^c   Stegeman, J A ^c  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b GD ANIMAL HEALTH   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Classical swine fever; Clinical signs; Diagnosis; Gross lesions; Inter and intra rater agreement; Sensitivity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; EPIDEMIC; EVALUATION; HUMAN; NETHERLANDS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE;

ANIMALS; AUTOPSY; CLASSICAL SWINE FEVER; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; NETHERLANDS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWINE;

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EID: 9644281472     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2004.09.003     Document Type: Article

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