In vitro antimicrobial susceptibility of Mycoplasma mycoides mycoides large colony and Arcanobacterium pyogenes isolated from clinical cases of ulcerative balanitis and vulvitis in Dorper sheep in South Africa

Journal of the South African Veterinary Association

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 204-208

  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; Dorper sheep; Minimum inhibitory concentrations; Mycoplasma mycoides mycoides; Ulcerative balanoposthitis and vulvovaginitis

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ENROFLOXACIN; FLORFENICOL; OXYTETRACYCLINE; SPIRAMYCIN; TILMICOSIN;

AGAR GEL DIFFUSION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARCANOBACTERIUM PYOGENES; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BALANITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DILUTION; DRUG EFFICACY; GROWTH INHIBITION; IN VITRO STUDY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MYCOPLASMA MYCOIDES; NONHUMAN; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE; SOUTH AFRICA; TYPE STRAIN; VULVITIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BACTERIAL COUNT; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ARCANOBACTERIUM PYOGENES; MYCOPLASMA MYCOIDES SUBSP. MYCOIDES; OVIS ARIES;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BALANITIS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CORYNEBACTERIUM PYOGENES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MYCOPLASMA MYCOIDES; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VULVITIS;

EID: 33745112340     PISSN: 10199128     EISSN: 22249435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4102/jsava.v76i4.427     Document Type: Article

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