Effect of antibiotics in extender on bacterial and spermatozoal quality of cooled buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) bull semen

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 272-278

  Akhter, S ^b   Ansari, M S ^b   Andrabi, S M H ^a   Ullah, N ^a   Qayyum, M ^b  

^a NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Pakistan)

^b PMAS ARID AGRICULTURE UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; GENTAMICIN; LINCOMYCIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TYLOSIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM; BUFFALO; COLD; DRUG EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; SPERM; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TIME;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; BUFFALOES; COLD; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENTAMICINS; LINCOMYCIN; MALE; PENICILLINS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SEMEN; SEMEN PRESERVATION; SPECTINOMYCIN; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; STREPTOMYCIN; TIME FACTORS; TYLOSIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BUBALUS BUBALIS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 43249088537     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: 14390531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0531.2007.00890.x     Document Type: Article

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