Leptospira interrogans in the genital tract of sheep. Research on ewes and rams experimentally infected with serovar hardjo (hardjobovis)

New Microbiologica

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 235-242

  Farina, R ^a   Cerri, D ^a   Renzoni, G ^a   Andreani, E ^a   Mani, P ^a   Ebani, V ^a   Pedrini, A ^a   Nuvoloni, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Genital tract; Leptospira interrogans; Serovar hardjo; Sheep

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BLOOD; FEMALE; GENITAL SYSTEM; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KIDNEY; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; FEMALE; GENITALIA; KIDNEY; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALE; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES;

EID: 0030184622     PISSN: 11217138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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