Effects of caprylic acid and triacylglycerols of both caprylic and capric acid in rabbits experimentally infected with enteropathogenic Escherichia coli O103

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 372-376

  Skřivanová, Eva ^a   Molatová, Zuzana ^a   Marounek, Milan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL SCIENCE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Capric acid; Caprylic acid; Diarrhoea; EPEC; Escherichia coli; Rabbits

Indexed keywords

AKOMED R; DECANOIC ACID; OCTANOIC ACID; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; ENTEROCOLITIS; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; FEMALE; INOCULATION; MALE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; RABBIT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CECUM; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DECANOIC ACIDS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENTEROCOLITIS; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FECES; FEMALE; MALE; OCTANOIC ACIDS; RABBITS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; TRIGLYCERIDES; WEANING;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 36749010724     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2007.07.010     Document Type: Article

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