Detection of spirochetes by polymerase chain reaction and its relation to the course of digital dermatitis after local antibiotic treatment in dairy cattle

Journal of Veterinary Medicine, Series B

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 117-126

  Mumba, T ^a   Dopfer D ^a   Kruitwagen, C ^a   Dreher, M ^a,b   Gaastra, W ^a   Van Der Zeijst, B A M ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL SKIN DISEASE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAIRYING; DERMATITIS; FEMALE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECURRENT DISEASE; TIME; TOE; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TREPONEMA;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DAIRYING; DERMATITIS; FEMALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECURRENCE; SKIN DISEASES, BACTERIAL; TIME FACTORS; TOES; TREPONEMA; TREPONEMAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 0033094599     PISSN: 09311793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0931-1793.1999.00212.x     Document Type: Article

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