"Canddatus Mycoplasma haemominutum" infections in 21 client-owned cats

Journal of the American Animal Hospital Association

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 249-257

  Reynolds, Caryn Alice ^a   Lappin, Michael R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANDIDATUS MYCOPLASMA HAEMOMINUTUM; MYCOPLASMA;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; DOXYCYCLINE; PREDNISONE;

ANEMIA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD; CAT; CAT DISEASE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MYCOPLASMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANEMIA; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CAT DISEASES; CATS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DOXYCYCLINE; FEMALE; MALE; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; PREDNISONE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34548772865     PISSN: 15473317     EISSN: 15473317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5326/0430249     Document Type: Article

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