Bovine Necrotic Vulvovaginitis Associated with Porphyromonas levii

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 505-507

  Elad, Daniel ^a   Friedgut, Orly ^a   Alpert, Nir ^b   Stram, Yehuda ^a   Lahav, Dan ^a   Tiomkin, Doron ^b   Avramson, Miriam ^c   Grinberg, Kalia ^a   Bernstein, Michael ^a  

^a KIMRON VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Israel)

^b Veterinary Field Services ^*

^c Veterinary Field Services   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; PENICILLIN G; PERMANGANATE POTASSIUM; STREPTOMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM EXAMINATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BOVINE NECROTIC VULVOVAGINITIS; CATTLE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAIRY CATTLE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; ISRAEL; METRITIS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PERITONITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORPHYROMONAS; PORPHYROMONAS LEVII; SEPSIS; VULVOVAGINITIS;

EID: 1542287275     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1003.020592     Document Type: Article

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