Frequency of urinary tract infection in catheterized dogs and comparison of bacterial culture and susceptibility testing results for catheterized and noncatheterized dogs with urinary tract infections

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 231, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 893-899

  Bubenik, Loretta J ^a   Hosgood, Giselle L ^a   Waldron, Don R ^b   Snow, Lynne A ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA MARYLAND REGIONAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

AGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BLADDER CATHETERIZATION; CERVICAL SPINE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; DOG; DOG DISEASE; FEMALE; INDWELLING CATHETER; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINE DISEASE; TIME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS INFECTION; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL DISEASES; TIME FACTORS; URINARY CATHETERIZATION; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANIS FAMILIARIS; ENTEROBACTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROTEUS (ENTEROBACTERIA); STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

EID: 34548848257     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.231.6.893     Document Type: Article

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