Presence of contagious agalactia causing mycoplasmas in Spanish goat artificial insemination centres

Theriogenology

Volumn 75, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1265-1270

  Amores, J ^a   Gomez Martin A ^a   Corrales, J C ^a   Sanchez A ^a   Contreras, A ^a   De la Fe, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Contagious agalactia; Goat buck centres; M. agalactiae; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BREEDING; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; GOAT; GOAT DISEASE; HOSPITAL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MYCOPLASMA AGALACTIAE; MYCOPLASMOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; SPAIN; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FEMALE; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; HOSPITALS, ANIMAL; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; MYCOPLASMA AGALACTIAE; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; PREGNANCY; SPAIN;

ANIMALIA; CAPRA HIRCUS; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA AGALACTIAE; MYCOPLASMA CAPRICOLUM SUBSP. CAPRICOLUM; MYCOPLASMA MYCOIDES; MYCOPLASMA MYCOIDES SUBSP. CAPRI; MYCOPLASMATALES;

EID: 79952748237     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2010.11.040     Document Type: Article

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