Bacterial isolates associated with dystocia and retained placenta in Iraqi buffaloes

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 286-292

  Azawi, O I ^a   Rahawy, M A ^a   Hadad, J J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MOSUL   (Iraq)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUHOK   (Iraq)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM; BUFFALO; DYSTOCIA; FEMALE; IRAQ; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; RETAINED PLACENTA; TIME; UTERUS; UTERUS DISEASE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BUFFALOES; DYSTOCIA; FEMALE; IRAQ; PLACENTA, RETAINED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; TIME FACTORS; UTERINE DISEASES; UTERUS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BUBALUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUSOBACTERIUM NECROPHORUM; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS ACIDOPHILUS; LACTOBACILLUS SP.; PREVOTELLA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 43249110962     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: 14390531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0531.2007.00892.x     Document Type: Article

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