Marek's Disease
Subtitle: An Evolving Problem (Biology of Animal Infections)
Contributors: Fred Davison (Editor); Venugopal Nair (Editor)
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: September 16, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780120883790
Subjects: Veterinary medicine: infectious diseases & therapeutics; Veterinary science: large animals (domestic / farm); Medical / Nursing; Medical; Epidemiology; Life Sciences - Biology - Microbiology; Veterinary Medicine - General; Medical / Epidemiology
First sentence: Marek's disease (MD), first described by Jozsef Marek in 1907 (Marek, 1907) as fowl paralysis (polyneuritis), was later shown to be associated with lymphoid tumours.