CAPRINE ARTHRITIS ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS INFECTION IN KIDS WITH ARTHRITIS

Acar A., Yavru S., Kale M., BULUT O., Avci O., Pehlivanoglu F.

INDIAN VETERINARY JOURNAL, vol.85, no.8, pp.824-825, 2008 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 85 Issue: 8
  • Publication Date: 2008
  • Journal Name: INDIAN VETERINARY JOURNAL
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.824-825
  • Dokuz Eylül University Affiliated: No

Abstract

Infection by caprine arthritis encephalitis virus (CAEV) is a worldwide cause of slowly progressing inflammatory disease of joints, mammary gland, lung and less commonly brain of mature goats. Chronic, proliferative arthritis in mature goats is the predominant clinical disease manifestation of CAE (Cheevers et al, 1988). The present study records a clinical presentation of CAE, in kids I to 3 months of age, with arthritis.