New Parvovirus Associated with Serum Hepatitis in Horses after Inoculation of Common Biological Product

Autor: Thomas J. Divers, Bud C. Tennant, Arvind Kumar, Sean McDonough, John Cullen, Nishit Bhuva, Komal Jain, Lokendra Singh Chauhan, Troels Kasper Høyer Scheel, W. Ian Lipkin, Melissa Laverack, Sheetal Trivedi, Satyapramod Srinivasa, Laurie Beard, Charles M. Rice, Peter D. Burbelo, Randall W. Renshaw, Edward Dubovi, Amit Kapoor
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 24, Iss 2, Pp 303-310 (2018)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1080-6040
1080-6059
DOI: 10.3201/eid2402.171031
Popis: Equine serum hepatitis (i.e., Theiler’s disease) is a serious and often life-threatening disease of unknown etiology that affects horses. A horse in Nebraska, USA, with serum hepatitis died 65 days after treatment with equine-origin tetanus antitoxin. We identified an unknown parvovirus in serum and liver of the dead horse and in the administered antitoxin. The equine parvovirus-hepatitis (EqPV-H) shares
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