Population-based study of fecal shedding of Clostridium perfringens in broodmares and foals

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 220, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 342-348

  Tillotson, Kirsten ^a   Traub Dargatz, Josie L ^a   Dickinson, Charles E ^a   Ellis, Robert R ^a   Morley, Paul S ^a   Hyatt, Doreene R ^a   Magnuson, Roberta J ^a   Riddle, W Thomas ^b   Bolte, Denise ^a   Salman, M D ^a  

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

^b ROOD AND RIDDLE EQUINE HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; EQUIDAE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLASSIFICATION; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENTEROCOLITIS; FECES; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; TIME;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENTEROCOLITIS; FECES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036482313     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.2002.220.342     Document Type: Article

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