An outbreak of equine infectious anaemia in Ireland during 2006: investigation methodology, initial source of infection, diagnosis and clinical presentation, modes of transmission and spread in the Meath cluster

Equine Vet J. 2008 Nov;40(7):706-8. doi: 10.2746/042516408x363305.

Authors

S J More¹, I Aznar, D C Bailey, J F Larkin, D P Leadon, P Lenihan, B Flaherty, U Fogarty, P Brangan

Affiliation

¹ Centre for Veterinary Epidemiology and Risk Analysis, UCD Agriculture, Food Science and Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.

PMID: 19165942
DOI: 10.2746/042516408x363305

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Animals
Antibodies, Viral / blood*
Cluster Analysis
Diagnosis, Differential
Disease Outbreaks / veterinary*
Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay / veterinary
Equine Infectious Anemia / diagnosis*
Equine Infectious Anemia / epidemiology*
Equine Infectious Anemia / transmission
Female
Horses
Infectious Anemia Virus, Equine / immunology*
Infectious Anemia Virus, Equine / isolation & purification
Ireland / epidemiology
Male
Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction / veterinary
Time Factors

Substances

Antibodies, Viral