Livestock drugs and disease: The fatal combination behind breeding failure in endangered bearded vultures

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Blanco, Guillermo ^a   Lemus, Jesús A ^a,b  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPARASITIC AGENT; CIPROFLOXACIN; ENROFLOXACIN; FLUNIXIN MEGLUMINE; IVERMECTIN; LEAD; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; OXYTETRACYCLINE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SALICYLATE SODIUM; VETERINARY DRUG; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HEALTH; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG TISSUE LEVEL; EMBRYO; ENDANGERED SPECIES; INFECTIOUS BURSAL DISEASE; LIVESTOCK; NESTLING; NONHUMAN; SEPTICEMIA; SPECIES EXTINCTION; WILDLIFE; ANIMAL; BIRD DISEASE; BRAIN; CHICK EMBRYO; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG EFFECT; FALCONIFORMES; FEMALE; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; NESTING; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; VIROLOGY;

AVES; GYPAETUS BARBATUS; SUIDAE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BIRD DISEASES; BRAIN; BREEDING; CHICK EMBRYO; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FALCONIFORMES; FEMALE; FLUOROQUINOLONES; LIVESTOCK; MALE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTION; VETERINARY DRUGS;

EID: 78649776644     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014163     Document Type: Article

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