Associations between physical examination, laboratory, and radiographic findings and outcome and subsequent racing performance of foals with Rhodococcus equi infection: 115 cases (1984-1992)

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 213, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 510-515

  Ainsworth, Dorothy M ^a   Eicker, Steven W ^a   Yeagar, Amy E ^a   Sweeney, Corinne R ^b   Viel, Laurent ^c   Tesarowski, David ^c   Lavoie, Jean Pierre ^d   Hoffman, Andrew ^e   Paradis, Mary Rose ^e   Reed, Steven M ^f   Erb, Hollis N ^a   Davidow, Elizabeth ^a   Nalevanko, Megan ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^e TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; LUNG; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; RISK; RISK FACTOR; RUNNING; STATISTICAL MODEL; TACHYCARDIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; LOGISTIC MODELS; LUNG; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; RISK FACTORS; RUNNING; TACHYCARDIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032528746     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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