Diseases in neonatal foals. Part 2: Potential risk factors for a higher incidence of infectious diseases during the first 30 days post partum

Equine Veterinary Journal

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 186-191

  Wohlfender, F D ^a   Barrelet, F E ^c   Doherr, M G ^b   Straub, R ^a   Meier, H P ^a  

^a Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine ^*  (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c Rossdale & Partners   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ROTAVIRUS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; BREEDING; COLOSTRUM; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; IMMUNOLOGY; INCIDENCE; INFECTION; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; PUERPERIUM; RISK FACTOR; SEASON; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED KINGDOM; VACCINATION;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BREEDING; COLOSTRUM; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; INCIDENCE; INFECTION; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS; VACCINATION;

EID: 66349131374     PISSN: 04251644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2746/042516408X345143     Document Type: Article

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