Ulcerative balanitis and vulvitis of Dorper sheep in South Aftrica: A study on its aetiology and clinical features

Journal of the South African Veterinary Association

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 197-203

  Kidanemariam, A ^a   Gouws, J ^b   van Vuuren, Moritz ^b   Gummow, B ^b  

^a National Animal Health Research Center Ethiopia   (Ethiopia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Arcanobacterium pyogenes; Balanitis; Dorper sheep; Mycoplasma mycoides mycoides large colony; South Aftrica; Vulvitis

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARCANOBACTERIUM PYOGENES; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BALANITIS; BALANOPOSTHITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENITAL SYSTEM; GENITAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; MALE; MICROFLORA; MOLLICUTES; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA MYCOIDES; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE; SHEEP FARMING; SOUTH AFRICA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMBIOSIS; VULVITIS; VULVOVAGINITIS; AGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CONTAGIOUS PLEUROPNEUMONIA; DIPHTHERIA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; ARCANOBACTERIUM PYOGENES; GLANS; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA MYCOIDES SUBSP. MYCOIDES; MYCOPLASMATALES; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BALANITIS; CORYNEBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; CORYNEBACTERIUM PYOGENES; FEMALE; MALE; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; MYCOPLASMA MYCOIDES; PLEUROPNEUMONIA, CONTAGIOUS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; SOUTH AFRICA; VULVITIS;

EID: 33745081889     PISSN: 10199128     EISSN: 22249435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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