An overview of infection control strategies for equine facilities, with an emphasis on veterinary hospitals

Veterinary Clinics of North America - Equine Practice

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 507-520

  Traub Dargatz, Josie L ^a   Dargatz, David A ^b   Morley, Paul S ^a   Dunowska, Magda ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HEALTH; CONFERENCE PAPER; HEALTH CARE; HORSE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RESISTANCE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; SALMONELLA; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; HOSPITALS, ANIMAL; HYGIENE; INFECTION CONTROL;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; SALMONELLA;

EID: 7444258114     PISSN: 07490739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cveq.2004.07.004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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