Rhodococcus equi: An animal and human pathogen

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1991, Pages 20-34

  Prescott, John F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAVIA PORCELLUS; CORYNEBACTERIUM; EQUUS CABALLUS; SUS SCROFA;

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; CEFALOTIN; CEFAZOLIN; CEFOXITIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; LINCOMYCIN; METICILLIN; NEOMYCIN; PENICILLIN G; RIFAMPICIN; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; TRIMETHOPRIM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENVIRONMENT; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; GUINEA PIG; HORSE; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PNEUMONIA; REVIEW; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; TAXONOMY;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; ANIMAL; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; HUMAN; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; PNEUMONIA; RHODOCOCCUS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0025967019     PISSN: 08938512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CMR.4.1.20     Document Type: Article

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