Evaluation of equine breeding farm characteristics as risk factors for development of Rhodococcus equi pneumonia in foals

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 222, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 467-475

  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

ARTICLE; BREEDING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HORSE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; RISK FACTOR; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; POPULATION DENSITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; RISK FACTORS; TEXAS;

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

EID: 0037442033     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.2003.222.467     Document Type: Article

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