Treatment of dogs infected with Hepatozoon americanum: 53 cases (1989-1998)

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 218, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 77-82

  Macintire, Douglass K ^a   Vincent Johnson, Nancy A ^a,b   Kane, Curtis W ^a   Lindsay, David S ^a,c   Blagburn, Byron L ^a   Dillon, Allen R ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b US Army Veterinary Command   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA MARYLAND REGIONAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMAZINE; DECOQUINATE; PYRIMETHAMINE; TOLTRAZURIL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; FEMALE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; RELAPSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; HEPATOZOON AMERICANUM;

EID: 0035182463     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.2001.218.77     Document Type: Article

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