Infectious agents associated with diarrhoea of calves in the canton of Tilarán, Costa Rica

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 195-205

  Perez E ^b   Kummeling, A ^a   Janssen, M M H ^a   Jimenez C ^b   Alvarado, R ^b   Caballero, M ^b   Donado, P ^b   Dwinger, R H ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Case control studies; Cattle microbiological diseases; Diarrhoea; Mortality and morbidity; Torovirus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; COCCIDIA; CORONAVIRUS; COSTA RICA; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DIARRHEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; ROTAVIRUS; SALMONELLA; STATISTICAL MODEL; STRONGYLOIDES; TOROVIRUS; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COCCIDIA; CORONAVIRUS; COSTA RICA; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DIARRHEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; FEMALE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PREVALENCE; ROTAVIRUS; SALMONELLA; STRONGYLOIDES; TOROVIRUS; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 0041854537     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-5877(97)00038-X     Document Type: Article

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