Surgical and Traumatic Wound Infections, Cellulitis, and Myositis in Horses

Veterinary Clinics of North America - Equine Practice

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 335-361

  Adam, Emma N ^a   Southwood, Louise L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CELLULITIS; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; INFECTION CONTROL; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MYOSITIS; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SURGICAL INFECTION; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CELLULITIS; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; INFECTION CONTROL; MYOSITIS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION;

EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 33746346194     PISSN: 07490739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cveq.2006.04.003     Document Type: Review

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