Bacterial culturing of ventral median celiotomies for prediction of postoperative incisional complications in horses

Veterinary Surgery

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 7-13

  Ingle Fehr, J E ^a   Baxter, G M ^a   Howard, R D ^a   Trotter, G W ^a   Stashak, T S ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HERNIA; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; SURGICAL INFECTION;

ABDOMEN; ANIMALS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; HERNIA; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0030639401     PISSN: 01613499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-950X.1997.tb01456.x     Document Type: Article

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