Effects of pulmonary abscesses on racing performance of horses treated at referral veterinary medical teaching hospitals: 45 cases (1985-1997)

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 216, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1282-1287

  Ainsworth, Dorothy M ^a   Erb, Hollis N ^a   Eicker, Steven W ^b   Yeagar, Amy E ^a   Viel, Laurent ^c   Sweeney, Corinne R ^d   Lavoie, Jean Pierre ^e  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b Valley Agricultural Software   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LUNG; LUNG ABSCESS; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RUNNING; SPORT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; LUNG; LUNG ABSCESS; MALE; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RECORDS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RUNNING; SPORTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034654824     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.2000.216.1282     Document Type: Article

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