Clinical, bacteriologic, serologic, and pathologic features of infections with atypical Taylorella equigenitalis in mares

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 216, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1945-1948

  Katz, Jonathan B ^a   Evans, Lawrence E ^b   Hutto, David L ^a   Schroeder Tucker, Linda C ^a   Carew, Ann M ^a   Donahue, J Michael ^c   Hirsh, Dwight C ^d  

^a National Veterinary Services Laboratories   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EQUIDAE; EQUUS ASINUS; TAYLORELLA; TAYLORELLA EQUIGENITALIS;

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; ENDOMETRITIS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TAYLORELLA EQUIGENITALIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ENDOMETRITIS; ENDOMETRIUM; EQUIDAE; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TAYLORELLA EQUIGENITALIS;

EID: 0034658894     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.2000.216.1945     Document Type: Article

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