A study on avian cellulitis in broiler chickens

Veterinarski Arhiv

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 277-284

  Derakhshanfar, Amin ^a   Ghanbarpour, Reza ^a  

^a SHAHID BAHONAR UNIVERSITY OF KERMAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Actinomyces pyogenes; Broiler chickens; Cellulitis; Escherichia coli; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIOLOGY; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIRD; CARCASS; CELL INFILTRATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CELLULITIS; CHICKEN; CORYNEBACTERIUM PYOGENES; DERMIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXUDATE; HYPERKERATOSIS; MICROSCOPY; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NONHUMAN; SEROTYPE; SEROTYPING; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN DISCOLORATION; SKINFOLD; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE;

ACTINOMYCES; ANIMALIA; ARCANOBACTERIUM PYOGENES; AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GALLUS GALLUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0036771189     PISSN: 03725480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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