A survey of injection site lesions in fed cattle in Canada

Canadian Veterinary Journal

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 767-772

  Van Donkersgoed, Joyce ^a   Dixon, Sue ^b   Brand, Glenn ^c   VanderKop, Mary ^a  

^a ALBERTA AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT   (Canada)

^b Box 571 ^*  (Canada)

^c Beef Information Center 215   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CANADA; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; ECONOMICS; FOOD INDUSTRY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INJURY; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MEAT; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PREVALENCE; QUALITY CONTROL; SAFETY; SCAR; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STANDARD;

ANIMALS; CANADA; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CICATRIX; CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY; DATA COLLECTION; FOOD-PROCESSING INDUSTRY; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; MEAT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PREVALENCE; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 0031296545     PISSN: 00085286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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