The management and treatment of environmental streptococcal mastitis

Veterinary Clinics of North America - Food Animal Practice

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 157-169

  Hillerton, J Eric ^a   Berry, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL VACCINE; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CLOXACILLIN; CORTICOSTEROID; ERYTHROMYCIN; PENETHEMATE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN G; STREPTOCOCCUS VACCINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL WELFARE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CATTLE DISEASE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG EFFICACY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; IMMUNIZATION; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; MASTITIS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; VACCINATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CATTLE; DAIRYING; FEMALE; HYGIENE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS TAURUS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CATTLE; DAIRYING; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; FEMALE; HYGIENE; MASTITIS, BOVINE; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 0037853333     PISSN: 07490720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0749-0720(02)00069-5     Document Type: Review

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