Bacterial meningitis and brain abscesses secondary to infectious disease processes involving the head in horses: Seven cases (1980-2001)

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 224, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 739-742

  Smith, Jennifer J ^a,b   Provost, Patricia J ^a   Paradis, Mary Rose ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CEFOTAXIME; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; FLUNIXIN MEGLUMINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE SODIUM SUCCINATE; PROCAINE PENICILLIN; SULFONAMIDE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN EDEMA; CLINICAL FEATURE; HEAD AND NECK DISEASE; HORSE; NONHUMAN; NOSE CAVITY; PARANASAL SINUS; SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND;

ANIMALS; BRAIN ABSCESS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; INFECTION; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 1542288744     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.2004.224.739     Document Type: Article

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