Genital Lesions in an Outbreak of Caprine Contagious Agalactia Caused by Mycoplasma agalactiae and Mycoplasma putrefaciens

Journal of Veterinary Medicine Series B: Infectious Diseases and Veterinary Public Health

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 484-487

  Gil, M C ^a   Pena F J ^a   Hermoso De Mendoza, J ^a   Gomez, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; GOAT; GOAT DISEASE; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LACTATION DISORDER; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA AGALACTIAE; PATHOLOGY; SPAIN;

ANIMALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, MALE; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; LACTATION DISORDERS; MALE; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA AGALACTIAE; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; SPAIN;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAPRA; CAPRA HIRCUS; MYCOPLASMA AGALACTIAE; MYCOPLASMA PUTREFACIENS;

EID: 0347029898     PISSN: 09311793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0931-1793.2003.00709.x     Document Type: Article

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