Evaluation of equine breeding farm management and preventative health practices as risk factors for development of Rhodococcus equi pneumonia in foals

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 222, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 476-485

  Chaffin, M Keith ^a   Cohen, Noah D ^a   Martens, Ronald J ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPERIMMUNE GLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BIRTH; BREEDING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HORSE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE IMMUNIZATION; PNEUMONIA; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PROPHYLAXIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BREEDING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; RISK FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; CORYNEBACTERIUM; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; RHODOCOCCUS; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI;

EID: 0037442028     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.2003.222.476     Document Type: Article

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