Metaphylactic gamithromycin treatment for the management of lameness in ewes putatively caused by Bacteroides melaninogenicus

Veterinary Record

Volumn 169, Issue 21, 2011, Pages

  Sargison, N D ^a   Scott, P R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; GAMITHROMYCIN; MACROLIDE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL LAMENESS; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDACEAE INFECTION; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREVOTELLA MELANINOGENICA; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEROIDACEAE INFECTIONS; FEMALE; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; LAMENESS, ANIMAL; MACROLIDES; PREGNANCY; PREVOTELLA MELANINOGENICA; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

PREVOTELLA MELANINOGENICA;

EID: 81755162756     PISSN: 00424900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/vr.d4927     Document Type: Article

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