NOUN
- any of a group of viruses containing DNA in an icosahedral protein shell and causing disease in dogs and cattle; not known to be associated with any human disease
How To Use parvo In A Sentence
- Puppies should be vaccinated against distemper, infectious hepatitis, leptospirosis, parvovirus, parainfluenza and rabies.
- Parvovirus, or "parvo," was diagnosed Monday in at least one dog kept at the Green Road facility. Undefined
- Human parvovirus B19 infection is responsible for 80 percent of aplastic crises.
- Most of the wolves trapped by biologists in Montana test positive for exposure to parvo, she said, but few succumb.
- If these wild dogs don't die of sheer starvation, he said, diseases such as parvovirus, heartworm, or intestinal parasites usually kill them.
- My remark was an epitogram -- an axis -- a kind of mulct'em in parvo. The Gentle Grafter
- Owing to narrow tissue or species specificity of parvoviruses, animal parvoviruses do not infect humans.
- For example, parvovirus, distemper and rabies are diseases that can be vaccinated against.
- Parvovirus is a particularly serious form of gastro-enteritis and results in severe vomiting and bloody diarrhoea.
- PCV2 was later isolated from lesions of affected pigs and the first experimental reproduction of PMWS clinical signs and lesions was completed using PCV2 and porcine parvovirus (PPV) co-infection in gnotobiotic pigs. ThePigSite - Global Pig Industry News Feeds
