Lameness in piglets. Abrasions in nursing piglets and transfer of protection towards infections with Streptococci from sow to offspring

Journal of Veterinary Medicine Series B: Infectious Diseases and Veterinary Public Health

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 278-284

  Zoric, M ^a,b   Sjolund M ^a,b   Persson, M ^a   Nilsson, E ^a   Lundeheim, N ^a,b   Wallgren, P ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL LAMENESS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SKIN DISEASE; BLOOD; CONTUSION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; INCIDENCE; INJURY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIMB; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN; PASSIVE IMMUNIZATION; PATHOLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; SUCKLING; SWEDEN; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CONTUSIONS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; IMMUNITY, MATERNALLY-ACQUIRED; INCIDENCE; LAMENESS, ANIMAL; MALE; SKIN DISEASES, BACTERIAL; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS; SWEDEN; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS DYSGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS DYSGALACTIAE SUBSP. EQUISIMILIS;

EID: 6344235519     PISSN: 09311793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0450.2004.00777.x     Document Type: Article

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