Infertility and abortion among first-lactation dairy cows seropositive or seronegative for Leptospira interrogans serovar hardjo

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 215, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 515-518

  Guitian, Javier ^a,c   Thurmond, Mark C ^a   Hietala, Sharon K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Laboratorio Lema and Bandin   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; IMMUNOLOGY; LACTATION; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PREGNANCY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; VETERINARY ABORTION;

ABORTION, VETERINARY; AGGLUTINATION TESTS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; FEMALE; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; LACTATION; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; PREGNANCY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WEIL DISEASE;

EID: 0033566450     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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