Failure of antibiotics gentamycin, tylosin, lincomycin and spectinomycin to eliminate Mycoplasma bovis in artificially infected frozen bovine semen

Theriogenology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 689-697

  Visser, I J R ^a   Ter Laak, E A ^b,d   Jansen, H B ^c  

^a Animal Health Service Drachten   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c HG   (Netherlands)

^d RVV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Frozen bovine semen; Mycoplasmas

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; GENTAMICIN; LINCOMYCIN; SPECTINOMYCIN; TYLOSIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; FREEZING; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; MALE; MASTITIS; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOPLASMA; NONHUMAN; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CATTLE; FREEZING; GENTAMICINS; LINCOMYCIN; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MYCOPLASMA; SEMEN; SPECTINOMYCIN; TYLOSIN;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; MYCOPLASMA BOVIS; MYCOPLASMATALES; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0033103968     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-691X(99)00018-7     Document Type: Article

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