Physical and serologic examinations of foals at 30 and 45 days of age for early diagnosis of Rhodococcus equi infection on endemically infected farms

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 212, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 976-981

  Higuchi, Tohru ^a   Taharaguchi, Sadao ^a   Hashikura, Shingo ^a   Hagiwara, Shin Taroh ^a   Gojo, Chikara ^a   Satoh, Shinsuke ^a   Yoshida, Masato ^a   Takai, Shinji ^b  

^a Hidaka Agriculture Mutual Aid Association   (Japan)

^b KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GLOBULIN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; FIBRINOGEN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD; COHORT ANALYSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; TRACHEA; VIRULENCE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; ALPHA-GLOBULINS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BLOTTING, WESTERN; COHORT STUDIES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES; FIBRINOGEN; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TRACHEA; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0032038757     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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