Evaluation of endotoxaemia in the prognosis and treatment of scouring Merino lambs

Journal of Veterinary Medicine Series A: Physiology Pathology Clinical Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 103-106

  Jimenez A ^a   Sanchez J ^a   Andres S ^a   Alonso, J M ^a   Gomez L ^a   Lopez F ^a,b   Rey, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^b Junta de Extremadura ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HALOFUGINONE; PIPERIDINE DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITOR; QUINAZOLINONE DERIVATIVE;

AGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DECISION MAKING; DIARRHEA; ENDOTOXEMIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; FLUID THERAPY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PROGNOSIS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE; SURVIVAL;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DECISION MAKING; DIARRHEA; ENDOTOXEMIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; FLUID THERAPY; PIPERIDINES; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; QUINAZOLINONES; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 33847050860     PISSN: 0931184X     EISSN: 14390442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0442.2007.00871.x     Document Type: Article

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