Bacterial contamination of boar semen affects the litter size

Animal Reproduction Science

Volumn 120, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 95-104

  Maroto Martín, Luis O ^a,b   Muñoz, Eduardo Cruz ^b   De Cupere, Françoise ^b   Van Driessche, Edilbert ^a   Echemendia Blanco, Dannele ^a   Rodríguez, José M Machado ^b   Beeckmans, Sonia ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF LAS VILLAS   (Cuba)

Author keywords

Agglutination; Boar semen; Escherichia coli; Litter size

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LITTER SIZE; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; LITTER SIZE; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; SEMEN; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM AGGLUTINATION; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA; PROTEUS (ENTEROBACTERIA); PSEUDOMONAS; SERRATIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 77954868921     PISSN: 03784320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anireprosci.2010.03.008     Document Type: Article

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