canine distemper


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canine distemper

[′kā‚nīn dis′tem·pər]
(veterinary medicine)
A pantropic virus disease occurring among animals of the family Canidae.
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An immunochromatography assay for rapid antemortem diagnosis of dogs suspected to have canine distemper. J.
Comparative Evaluation of Immunochromatographic and Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction based tests for Diagnosis of Canine Distemper
A fast and highly sensitive method for the detection of canine distemper virus by the naked eye.
Canine distemper virus detection by different methods of One-Step RT-qPCR/Deteccao do virus da cinomose canina por diferentes metodos de One-Step RT-qPCR
Epizootiology of canine distemper in New Jersey raccoons.
Survival of unexploited raccoons on a rural refuge in Southern Illinois
In addition to the canine distemper virus, ferrets are unusual in that they can become infected with human influenza.
Chapter 4: Ferrets
The competitions are designed to investigate problems that Scheiner says "had fallen between the cracks" of previous NIH and NSF efforts--current winners are investigating issues such as bat-transmitted diseases in Malaysia and canine distemper in dogs, lions, and other mammals in East Africa's Serengeti region.
Conservation medicine: combining the best of all worlds
In the 1920s it supported tests to develop vaccines against canine distemper, and in November 1933 printed an article by Sir Malcolm Campbell (then holder of the World Land Speed Record) on `Some Causes of Road Accidents', in which safety testing of all cars after eight years was proposed--the forerunner of today's MOT.
One hundred and fifty years of The Field magazine. (Frontline)
The sudden decline in the fox population of Santa Catalina Island is attributed to canine distemper, most likely brought to the island by a domestic dog (Coonan 2001b).
Channel Island Fox recovery efforts. (Conservation Spotlight)
The largemouth bass virus system may be a good general model for understanding the biology of other emerging viruses of wildlife, such as the West Nile virus, the Ebola virus and newly emerging viruses related to canine distemper.
ALTERED ENVIRONMENT MAY MAKE FISH VULNERABLE TO EMERGING VIRUS
Despite high hopes and intense monitoring, the Meeteetse ferret population dropped precipitously following epidemics of sylvatic plague and canine distemper that swept through the Wyoming prairie dog communities in the mid-1980s.
New digs for the ferret? A multinational program to introduce an endangered species into Northeastern Mexico may stimulate future cooperative conservation projects across borders
For example, Gordon et al described the presence of canine distemper virus RNA in pagetic bone lesions.
Persistent measles virus infection as a possible cause of otosclerosis: State of the art
1988: As many as 6,000 North Sea seals killed by canine distemper.
IT'S A DATE; DUSTIN HOFFMAN 3 AUGUST 8, 1937

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