Chemoprophylactic effects of azithromycin against Rhodococcus equi-induced pneumonia among foals at equine breeding farms with endemic infections

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 232, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1035-1047

  Chaffin, M Keith ^a   Cohen, Noah D ^a   Martens, Ronald J ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NEWBORN; PATHOGENICITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; AZITHROMYCIN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI;

EID: 42149147385     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.232.7.1035     Document Type: Article

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