Digital dermatitis - The aetiological soup

Veterinary Journal

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 12-13

  Logue, D N ^a,c   Offer, J E ^a   Laven, R A ^a,d   Ellis, W A ^b  

^a SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b AGRI FOOD AND BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL VACCINE; BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL LAMENESS; BACTERIAL SKIN DISEASE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; DAIRY CATTLE; DERMATITIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DICHELOBACTER NODOSUS; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIC; FUSOBACTERIUM NECROPHORUM; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; INFECTION CONTROL; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; RISK FACTOR; SHEEP; TREPONEMA;

ANIMALS; BATHS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; FOOT ROT; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; TREPONEMA DENTICOLA;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; DICHELOBACTER NODOSUS; FUSOBACTERIUM NECROPHORUM; OVIS ARIES; TREPONEMA;

EID: 21444453615     PISSN: 10900233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tvjl.2005.04.030     Document Type: Editorial

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