Evaluation of 5 serologic assays to detect Rhodococcus equi pneumonia in foals

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 221, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 825-833

  Martens, Ronald J ^a   Cohen, Noah D ^a   Chaffin, M Keith ^a   Takai, Shinji ^b   Doherty, Charity L ^c   Angulo, Arthur B ^d   Edwards, Ronnie F ^e  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Veterinary Dynamics Inc   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM   (United States)

^e Heart of Texas Equine Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; RHODOCOCCUS; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI;

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BLOOD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EVALUATION; HEMOLYTIC PLAQUE ASSAY; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; IMMUNODIFFUSION; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HEMOLYTIC PLAQUE TECHNIQUE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; IMMUNODIFFUSION; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0037106078     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.2002.221.825     Document Type: Article

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