Efficacy of extended pirlimycin hydrochloride therapy for treatment of environmental streptococcus spp and staphylococcus aureus intramammary infections in lactating dairy cows

Veterinary Therapeutics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2002, Pages

  Moorehead, Hugh ^a,b,c   Lunn, Phillip ^a,b,c   Dowlen, Henry ^a,b,c   Johnson, David ^a,b,c   Lamar, Ken ^a,b,c   Lewis, Mark ^a,b,c   Ivey, Susan ^a,b,c   Hallberg, John ^a,b,c   Chester, S ^a,b,c   Oliver, Stephen ^a,b,c   Bahri, Lotfi El ^a,b,c   Gillespie, Barabara ^a,b,c  

^a PFIZER INC   (United States)

^b Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 79251486700     PISSN: 15283593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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