Evaluation of an enrofloxacin-treatment program against Mycoplasma gallisepticum infection in broilers

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 91-99

  Barbour, Elie K ^a   Hamadeh, Shady ^a   Talhouk, Rabih ^a   Sakr, Wassim ^b   Darwish, Ragy ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b HAWARCO   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Antibody titers; Chicken microbiological diseases; Control strategies; Enrofloxacin; Feed conversion; Mycoplasma gallisepticum

Indexed keywords

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; MYCOPLASMA GALLISEPTICUM;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; ENROFLOXACIN; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BIRD DISEASE; BLOOD; CHICK EMBRYO; CHICKEN; DRUG EFFECT; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOPLASMA; TRACHEA;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CHICK EMBRYO; CHICKENS; FLUOROQUINOLONES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; POULTRY DISEASES; QUINOLONES; TRACHEA;

EID: 0032062049     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-5877(98)00055-5     Document Type: Article

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