Risk factors for high sow mortality in French swine herds

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 109-119

  Abiven, N ^a,c   Seegers, H ^a   Beaudeau, F ^a   Laval, A ^b   Fourichon, C ^a  

^a LUNAM UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b ECOLE NATIONALE VÉTÉRINAIRE D ALFORT   (France)

^c SCA FIPSO   (France)

Author keywords

Feeding and nutrition; Mortality; Pig morbidity and mortality; Weaning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; FEMALE; FRANCE; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FRANCE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; LOGISTIC MODELS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

EID: 0031614050     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-5877(97)00053-6     Document Type: Article

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