Outbreak of pneumonia and arthritis in beef calves associated with Mycoplasma bovis and Mycoplasma californicum

Veterinary Record

Volumn 151, Issue 23, 2002, Pages 699-703

  Hewicker Trautwein, M ^a   Feldmann, M ^a   Kehler, W ^a   Schmidt, R ^a   Thiede, R ^a   Seeliger, F ^a   Wohlsein, P ^a   Ball, H J ^b   Buchenau, I ^a   Spergser, J ^c   Rosengarten, R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b AGRI FOOD AND BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BEEF CATTLE; CATTLE FARMING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDEMIC; GERMANY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG FLUID; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA BOVIS; MYCOPLASMA CALIFORNICUM; NONHUMAN; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT MUCOSA; SYNOVIAL FLUID;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; ARTHRITIS, INFECTIOUS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; NETHERLANDS; PNEUMONIA, MYCOPLASMA; RISK FACTORS; SYNOVIAL FLUID;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS TAURUS; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA BOVIS; MYCOPLASMA CALIFORNICUM;

EID: 0037038883     PISSN: 00424900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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