Clinical mastitis in ewes; bacteriology, epidemiology and clinical features

Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Mørk, Tormod ^a   Waage, Steinar ^b   Tollersrud, Tore ^a   Kvitle, Bjørg ^a   Sviland, Ståle ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MANNHEIMIA HAEMOLYTICA; OVIS; OVIS ARIES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MASTITIS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; NORWAY; PATHOLOGY; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; UDDER;

ANIMALS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MASTITIS; NORWAY; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 35748979098     PISSN: 0044605X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1751-0147-49-23     Document Type: Article

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