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SUBMITTER: Mittelman NS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5435076 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mittelman N S NS Divers T J TJ Engiles J B JB Gerhold R R Ness S S Scrivani P V PV Southard T T Johnson A L AL
Journal of veterinary internal medicine 20170320 3
There are reports of horses with acute onset acquired cervical scoliosis and cutaneous analgesia. The underlying dorsal gray column myelitis that produces these neurologic signs has been only presumptively attributed to migration of Parelaphostrongylus tenuis within the spinal cord. Despite previous confirmation brain by polymerase chain reaction testing, of P. tenuis within the brain of horses by polymerase chain reaction testing, genetic testing has failed to definitively identify the presence ...[more]