Clinical application of a polymerase chain reaction assay in the diagnosis of pneumonia caused by Rhodococcus equi in a horse

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 217, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1348-1350

  Vivrette, Sally L ^a   Sellon, Debra C ^a,b   Gibbons, Debra S ^a,c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; RIFAMPICIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; GENETICS; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; VIRULENCE;

ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTITUBERCULAR; ERYTHROMYCIN; FEMALE; GENTAMICINS; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; PENICILLINS; PLATELET COUNT; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; RIFAMPIN; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0034323061     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.2000.217.1348     Document Type: Review

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