Suspected clostridium difficile-associated hemorrhagic diarrhea in a 1-week-old elk calf

Canadian Veterinary Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1130-1131

  Arroyo, Luis G ^a   Rousseau, Joyce D ^a   Staempfli, Henry R ^a   Weese, J Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RINGER SOLUTION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOODY DIARRHEA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CORONAVIRUS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; NEWBORN INFECTION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RED DEER; ROTAVIRUS; SALMONELLA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DEER; DIARRHEA; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CERVUS ELAPHUS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CORONAVIRUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ROTAVIRUS; SALMONELLA;

EID: 30644456800     PISSN: 00085286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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