A QUARTERLY OF THE HUNGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

Acta Veterinaria Hungarica publishes original research papers presenting new scientific results of international interest, and to a limited extent also review articles and clinical case reports, on veterinary physiology (physiological chemistry and metabolism), veterinary microbiology (bacteriology, virology, immunology, molecular biology) on the infectious diseases of domestic animals, on veterinary parasitology, pathology, clinical veterinary science and reproduction.
The journal is published in yearly volumes of four issues.

Abstracted/indexed in
Biological abstracts, BIOSIS Previews, CAB Abstracts, Chemical Abstracts, Current Contents: Agriculture, Biology and Environmental Sciences, Elsevier Science Navigator, Focus On: Veterinary Science and Medicine, Global Health, Index Medicus, Index Veterinarius, Medline, Science Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded (SciSearch), SCOPUS, The ISI Alerting Services, Zoological Abstracts.

Editorial correspondence
ACTA VETERINARIA HUNGARICA
Veterinary Medical Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
P.O. Box 18, H-1581 Budapest, Hungary
Phone: (+36 1) 467 4078 (ed.-in-chief) or (+36 1) 213 9793 (editor)
Fax: (+36 1) 252 1069 (ed.-in-chief) or (+36 1) 213 9793 (editor)
E-mail: meszaros.janos3@chello.hu (ed.-in-chief) or szekely.a@mail.datanet.hu (editor)
Contents, abstracts, editorial information and the list of accepted papers are available at http://www.vmri.hu/~acta/

Subscription price
for Volume 57 (2009) in 4 issues EUR 344 + VAT (for North America: USD 484)
including online access and normal postage; airmail delivery EUR 20 (USD 28)

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© Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest 2009

ISSN 0236-6290

AVet 57 (2009) 4

Printed in Hungary

Published by the financial support of the
Committee on Publishing Scientific Books and Periodicals,
Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Language Editor:
András SZÉKELY

Desktop typesetting:
Margit SZÉKELY

Cover design
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Impact Factor (2008): 0.624