Septicaemia secondary to infection by Corynebacterium macginleyi in an Indian python (Python molurus)

Veterinary Journal

Volumn 172, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 382-385

  Martínez, Jorge ^a   Segura, Pablo ^a   García, David ^a   Aduriz, Gorka ^b   Ibabe, José C ^b   Peris, Bernardo ^a   Corpa, Juan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CEU CARDENAL HERRERA   (Spain)

^b NEIKER and a Vaccine producing Commercial Company CZVSL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Corynebacterium macginleyi; Granuloma; Python; Septicaemia; Stomatitis

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CEFOTAXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN;

ANIMAL EUTHANASIA; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CORYNEBACTERIUM; DEATH; DYSTOCIA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EYE INFLAMMATION; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LOW TEMPERATURE; NOISE; NONHUMAN; OSTEOMYELITIS; PNEUMONIA; RADIOGRAPHY; SEPTICEMIA; SNAKE; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; STOMATITIS; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ANIMALS; BOIDAE; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; SEPSIS; STOMATITIS;

ANIMALIA; CORYNEBACTERIUM MACGINLEYI; PYTHON MOLURUS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA;

EID: 33746549792     PISSN: 10900233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tvjl.2005.04.027     Document Type: Article

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