Treatment of sepsis in the small tarsal joints of 11 horses with gentamicin-impregnated polymethylmethacrylate beads

Veterinary Record

Volumn 148, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 376-380

  Booth, T M ^d   Butson, R J ^a   Clegg, P D ^e   Schramme, M C ^b   Smith, R K ^c  

^a Brooke Hospital for Animals   (United Kingdom)

^b ANIMAL HEALTH TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; GENTAMICIN; PANGRAM; PENICILLIN G POTASSIUM; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE); TRIMEDAZINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG IMPLANT; FOOT RADIOGRAPHY; HORSE DISEASE; NONHUMAN; SEPSIS; TARSAL JOINT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 0035941925     PISSN: 00424900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/vr.148.12.376     Document Type: Article

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