Clinical, histologic, and bacteriologic findings in dairy cows with digital dermatitis (footwarts) one month after topical treatment with lincomycin hydrochloride or oxytetracycline hydrochloride

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 237, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 555-560

  Berry, Steven L ^a   Read, Deryck H ^b   Walker, Richard L ^b   Famula, Thomas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; LINCOMYCIN; OXYTETRACYCLINE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAIRYING; DERMATITIS; FEMALE; HOOF AND CLAW; PAPILLOMA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKIN DISEASE; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DAIRYING; DERMATITIS; FEMALE; FOOT DERMATOSES; HOOF AND CLAW; LINCOMYCIN; OXYTETRACYCLINE; PAPILLOMA;

EID: 77957900649     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.237.5.555     Document Type: Article

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