Typhlocolitis caused by Clostridium difficile in suckling piglets

Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 104-108

  Waters, Edwin H ^a   Orr, James P ^a   Clark, Edward G ^a   Schaufele, Colleen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CANADA; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COLON; EDEMA; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; INTESTINE MUCOSA; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; STOMACH; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COLON; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EDEMA; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FEMALE; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; SASKATCHEWAN; STOMACH; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

EID: 0031612465     PISSN: 10406387     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/104063879801000122     Document Type: Article

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