Antibody responses of mares to prepartum vaccination with Clostridium perfringens bacterin and β2 toxin

Veterinary Record

Volumn 157, Issue 25, 2005, Pages 810-812

  Timoney, J F ^a   Hartmann, M ^a   Fallon, L ^b   Fallon, E ^a   Walker, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b HAGYARD EQUINE MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIN; CLOSTRIDIUM TOXIN; ENTEROTOXIN; PHOSPHOLIPASE C; TOXOID;

ACTIVE IMMUNIZATION; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BREEDING; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS TYPE A; COLOSTRUM; DRUG TOLERABILITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HAIR LOSS; HORSE; IMMUNOGENICITY; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE IMMUNIZATION; SKIN EDEMA; VACCINATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS A; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 32444436498     PISSN: 00424900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/vr.157.25.810     Document Type: Article

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