Arcanobacterium pyogenes as a cause of fatal pleuropneumonia after capture and transport of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)

Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 468-471

  Palmer, Mitchell V ^a   Whipple, Diana L ^a  

^a NATIONAL ANIMAL DISEASE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINOMYCETACEAE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL LAMENESS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BREEDING; CASE REPORT; DEER; FATALITY; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PNEUMONIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION;

ACTINOMYCETACEAE; ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; DEER; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; LAMENESS, ANIMAL; PLEUROPNEUMONIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL;

EID: 0141498854     PISSN: 10406387     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/104063879901100515     Document Type: Article

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