Osteomyelitis of the pelvis caused by Rhodococcus equi in a two-year-old horse

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 222, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 969-972+952

  Clark Price, Stuart C ^a   Rush, Bonnie R ^a   Gaughan, Earl M ^a   Cox, Judy H ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTIOFUR; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; METRONIDAZOLE; PHENYLBUTAZONE; RIFAMPICIN;

ANIMAL LAMENESS; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DEBRIDEMENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FEVER; HORSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INFLAMMATION; LETHARGY; NONHUMAN; OSTEOMYELITIS; PELVIS; PELVIS RADIOGRAPHY; RHODOCOCCUS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DEBRIDEMENT; ERYTHROMYCIN; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; LAMENESS, ANIMAL; OSTEOMYELITIS; PUBIC SYMPHYSIS; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALIA; EQUUS CABALLUS; RHODOCOCCUS; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI;

EID: 0037377877     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.2003.222.969     Document Type: Article

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