Administration of Perioperative Penicillin Reduces Postoperative Serum Amyloid A Response in Horses Being Castrated Standing

Veterinary Surgery

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 638-643

  Busk, Peter ^a   Jacobsen, Stine ^b   Martinussen, T ^c  

^a Skjern Aa Veterinary Clinic   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROCAINE PENICILLIN; SERUM AMYLOID A;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HORSE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; ORCHIECTOMY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURGICAL INFECTION; PROCEDURES; SURGERY; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; HORSES; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; PENICILLIN G PROCAINE; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTURE; SERUM AMYLOID A PROTEIN; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EQUIDAE;

EID: 77955169711     PISSN: 01613499     EISSN: 1532950X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-950X.2010.00704.x     Document Type: Article

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