Outbreak of Pasteurella multocida septicaemia in neonatal lambs

Veterinary Record

Volumn 151, Issue 14, 2002, Pages 420-422

  Watson, P J ^a   Davies, R L ^b  

^a VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; OXYTETRACYCLINE; RNA 16S; SPECTINOMYCIN; ZINC SULFATE;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG ABSORPTION; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; FATALITY; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE SEPSIS; HYPERSALIVATION; LAMB; LETHARGY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; PASTEURELLA MULTOCIDA; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PLEURA EFFUSION; SHEEP FARMING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGINA SMEAR;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTER; LAMB; NEGIBACTERIA; OVIS ARIES; PASTEURELLA; PASTEURELLA MULTOCIDA;

EID: 0037027091     PISSN: 00424900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/vr.151.14.420     Document Type: Article

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