Respiratory disease in calves: Microbiological investigations on trans-tracheally aspirated bronchoalveolar fluid and acute phase protein response

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 137, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 165-171

  Angen, Øystein ^a   Thomsen, John ^a   Larsen, Lars Erik ^a   Larsen, Jesper ^b   Kokotovic, Branko ^a   Heegaard, Peter M H ^a   Enemark, Jörg M D ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Calf pneumonia; Haptoglobin; Histophilus somni; Mannheimia haemolytica; Mycoplasma; Pasteurella multocida; PCR; Serum amyloid A; Trans tracheal aspiration

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PHASE PROTEIN; AMYLOID A PROTEIN; HAPTOGLOBIN; SPACER DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CALF (MAMMAL); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONAVIRUS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; LUNG LAVAGE; NONHUMAN; PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS 3; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS;

ACUTE-PHASE PROTEINS; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; HAPTOGLOBINS; LUNG; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERUM AMYLOID A PROTEIN; TRACHEA; VIRUS DISEASES;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOVINAE; BOVINE RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS; CORONAVIRUS; HISTOPHILUS SOMNI; HUMAN PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS 3; MANNHEIMIA GLUCOSIDA; MANNHEIMIA HAEMOLYTICA; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA BOVIRHINIS; MYCOPLASMA BOVIS; MYCOPLASMA DISPAR; PASTEURELLA MULTOCIDA;

EID: 67349192680     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2008.12.024     Document Type: Article

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