Relationship between Abortions and Seroprevalences to Selected Infectious Agents in Dairy Cows

Journal of Veterinary Medicine, Series B

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 435-441

  Hassig M ^a   Lubsen, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SOCAR S A   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOS TAURUS; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI; COXIELLA BURNETII; COXIELLA BURNETTI; LEPTOSPIRA;

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; ORNITHOSIS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PROBABILITY; Q FEVER; SWITZERLAND; VETERINARY ABORTION; VIRUS INFECTION;

ABORTION, VETERINARY; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LEPTOSPIROSIS; PARVOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PROBABILITY; PSITTACOSIS; Q FEVER; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0032161296     PISSN: 09311793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0450.1998.tb00813.x     Document Type: Article

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