Survival of foals with experimentally induced rhodococcus equi infection given either hyperimmune plasma containing R. equi antibody or normal equine plasma

Veterinary Therapeutics

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2002, Pages

  Perkins, Gillian ^a   Yeager, Amy ^a   Erb, Hollis N ^a   Nydam, Daryl ^a   Divers, Thomas ^a   Bowman, James ^a  

^a Lake Immunogenics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUIDAE; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI;

EID: 79251504637     PISSN: 15283593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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