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Specialty Expressions: EASTERN EQUINE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS

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Eastern equine encephalomyelitisBiology & BiotechnologyA mosquito-transmitted infection of horses, mules, and donkeys characterized by fever and neurological signs and caused by alphaviruses of the eastern group. Source: European Union. (references)
Near Eastern equine encephalomyelitisBiology & Biotechnology1: VE (1) is a geographically restricted virus disease of horses, occasionally sheep, characterized by a uniformly fatal encephalomyelitis. Clinically it is characterized by pharyngeal paralysis, muscle tremor, lethargy and flaccid paralysis. The causative virus has not been fully characterized or classified. VE (2) is caused by a virus, antigenically identical with the Borna disease virus and is clinically indistinguishable from Borna disease,. Source: European Union. (references)
  2: VE(1)is a geographically restricted virus disease of horses, occasionally sheep, charcterized by a uniformly fatal encephalomyelitis. Clinically it is characterized by pharyngeal paralysis, muscle tremor, lethargy and flaccid paralysis. The causative virus has not been fully characterized or classified. VE(2)is caused by a virus, antigenically identical with the Borna disease virus and is clinically indistinguishable from Borna disease,. Source: European Union. (references)

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