Bacteriological culture of blood from critically ill neonatal calves

Canadian Veterinary Journal

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 95-100

  Fecteau, Gilles ^a   Van Metre, David C ^b   Paré, Julie ^b   Smith, Bradford P ^c   Higgins, Robert ^a   Holmberg, Charles A ^b   Jang, Spencer ^b   Guterbock, Walter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

AGING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; DRUG EFFECT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITALIZATION; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN; PASSIVE IMMUNIZATION; PREVALENCE; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BACTEREMIA; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; IMMUNIZATION, PASSIVE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PREVALENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0031068024     PISSN: 00085286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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