Analysis of first gastric compartment fluid collected via percutaneous paracentesis from healthy llamas

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 214, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 812-815

  Navarre, Christine B ^a   Pugh, David G ^a   Heath, Allen M ^a   Simpkins, S Alan ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; LAMA (CAMEL); NEGIBACTERIA; PROTOZOA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ARTIODACTYLA; BACTERIUM; BLOOD; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PARACENTESIS; PARASITOLOGY; PH; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTOZOON; REFERENCE VALUE; RUMINANT STOMACH; STANDARD; STOMACH JUICE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CAMELIDS, NEW WORLD; FEMALE; GASTRIC JUICE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MALE; PARACENTESIS; PROTOZOA; REFERENCE VALUES; STOMACH, RUMINANT;

EID: 0033558422     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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