Clinicopathological features consistent with both botulism and grass sickness in a foal

Veterinary Record

Volumn 152, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 334-336

  McGorum, B C ^a   Kyles, K W J ^a   Prince, D ^a   Hahn, C N ^a   Mayhew, I G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM ANTISERUM; GENTAMICIN; LUBRICATING AGENT; OXYGEN; PANGRAM; PENICILLIN G SODIUM; PHENYLEPHRINE; RANITIDINE;

ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; AUTOPSY; BOTULISM; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORNEA ULCER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GENERAL CONDITION DETERIORATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORSE DISEASE; MUSCLE DISEASE; MYASTHENIA; NERVE CELL LESION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PHYTOTOXICITY; PTOSIS; RECUMBENCY; REFLEX DISORDER; SHORT SURVEY; TACHYCARDIA; TACHYPNEA;

EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 0037444644     PISSN: 00424900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/vr.152.11.334     Document Type: Short Survey

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