"Borna disease virus" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A species in the genus Bornavirus, family BORNAVIRIDAE, causing a rare and usually fatal encephalitic disease in horses and other domestic animals and possibly deer. Its name derives from the city in Saxony where the condition was first described in 1894, but the disease occurs in Europe, N. Africa, and the Near East.
| Descriptor ID |
D001891
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B04.820.455.149.135 B04.909.777.455.149.135
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| Concept/Terms |
Borna disease virus- Borna disease virus
- Enzootic Encephalomyelitis Virus
- Near East Equine Encephalomyelitis Virus
- Encephalomyelitis Virus, Enzootic
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