Bacterial diskospondylitis associated with posterior paresis/paralysis in North American farmed mink (Mustela vison)

Veterinary Pathology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 125-131

  Olson, E J ^a   Parker, J B ^a   Carlson, C S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial diskospondylitis (spondylodiscitis); Beta hemolytic Streptococcus sp.; Intervertebral disk; North American mink (mustela vison); Posterior paresis paralysis; Thoracic vertebrae

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; DIET; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HISTOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; MINK; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; OSTEOLYSIS; PARALYSIS; PARESIS; PATHOGENESIS; SEPTICEMIA; SPONDYLITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS; THORAX; WOUND; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; DISKITIS; MICROBIOLOGY; NORTH AMERICA; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; DISCITIS; MINK; NORTH AMERICA; PARALYSIS; SPINE; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 20144366820     PISSN: 03009858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1354/vp.42-2-125     Document Type: Article

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