Could we eradicate strangles in equids?

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 231, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 377-378

  Prescott, John F ^a   Timoney, John F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; NOTE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; VACCINATION;

ANIMALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; MALE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI; VACCINATION;

EQUIDAE;

EID: 34547531552     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.231.3.377     Document Type: Note

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