Assessment of the short-term systemic effect of and acute phase response to mulesing and other options for controlling breech flystrike in Merino lambs

Australian Veterinary Journal

Volumn 89, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 19-26

  Lepherd, M L ^a   Canfield, P J ^a   Hunt, G B ^a   Thomson, P C ^a   Bosward, K L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acute phase response; Breech flystrike; Clinical pathology; Mulesing; Non surgical mulesing; Sheep

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PHASE PROTEIN; CETRIMIDE; TOPICAL ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACUTE PHASE RESPONSE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD EXAMINATION; FEMALE; INSECT BITE; INSECT CONTROL; METHODOLOGY; MYIASIS; NEWBORN; PAIN; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE; TAIL;

ACUTE-PHASE PROTEINS; ACUTE-PHASE REACTION; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL WELFARE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CETRIMONIUM COMPOUNDS; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; INSECT CONTROL; MYIASIS; PAIN; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; TAIL;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 78751482496     PISSN: 00050423     EISSN: 17510813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-0813.2010.00668.x     Document Type: Article

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