Efficacy of florfenicol in the treatment of experimentally induced infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis

American Journal of Veterinary Research

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 960-964

  Dueger, Erica L ^a   Angelos, John A ^a   Cosgrove, Sallie ^b   Johnson, John ^b   George, Lisle W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLORFENICOL;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CATTLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA ULCER; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG EFFICACY; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; NONHUMAN; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORNEAL ULCER; FLUORESCEIN; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS, INFECTIOUS; MALE; MORAXELLA (MORAXELLA) BOVIS; NEISSERIACEAE INFECTIONS; PHOTOGRAPHY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; THIAMPHENICOL;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; MORAXELLA BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS;

EID: 0032769852     PISSN: 00029645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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