Postoperative infection with Actinobacillus spp in horses: 10 Cases (1995-2000)

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 221, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1306-1310

  Smith, Meredith A ^a   Ross, Michael W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; BACITRACIN; CEFALOTIN; CEFTIOFUR; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ENROFLOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN G; POLYMYXIN B; RIFAMPICIN; TICARCILLIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ACTINOBACILLUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTHROSCOPY; ARTICLE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; HORSE; HYGROMA; LARYNGOPLASTY; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; WOUND INFECTION;

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

EID: 0036827691     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.2002.221.1306     Document Type: Article

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