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Lunardi,Michele; Claus,Marlise Pompeo; Lisbôa,Júlio Augusto Naylor; Amude,Alexandre Mendes; Headley,Selwyn Arlington; Alfieri,Alice Fernandes; Alfieri,Amauri Alcindo. |
Bovine herpesvirus 5 is a DNA virus that has been associated with meningoencephalitis in young cattle. While its clinical diagnosis is obscured by other major diseases that also produce similar neurological disease in cattle, the use of conventional virological techniques is hampered by the establishment of a lifelong latent infection in the host and the difficulty in differentiating BoHV-1 and BoHV-5. The aim of the current report is to describe the clinical and epidemiological aspects observed in a natural outbreak of BoHV-5 meningoencephalitis in a dairy cattle herd from Brazil. In the outbreak, the affected animals consisted of nine calves, which presented three possible forms of the neurological disease, subjectively classified as peracute, acute, and... |
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Cattle; Central nervous system; Bovine herpesvirus 5; Multiplex-PCR. |
Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-89132009000700011 |
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