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

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

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...

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Main Authors: 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
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2018-02-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
parvovirus
hepatitis
horse
veterinary virology
metagenomics
equine liver disease
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/24/2/17-1031_article

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