Efficacy of an avirulent live vaccine against Lawsonia intracellularis in the prevention of proliferative enteropathy in experimentally infected weanling foals

American Journal of Veterinary Research

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 741-746

  Pusterla, Nicola ^a   Vannucci, Fabio A ^c   Mapes, Samantha M ^a   Nogradi, Nora ^b   Collier, Jessica R ^a   Hill, Jackie A ^a   DiFrancesco, Melissa ^a   White, Alexandria M ^a   Akana, Nina K ^a   Simonek, Greg ^a   Gebhart, Connie J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL VACCINE; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; LAWSONIA INTRACELLULARIS VACCINE; LIVE VACCINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESULFOVIBRIONACEAE INFECTION; DRUG EFFICACY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENTEROPATHY; FOAL; HYPOPROTEINEMIA; NONHUMAN; SEROCONVERSION; SMALL INTESTINE; STOMACH INTUBATION; VACCINATION;

ADMINISTRATION, RECTAL; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL VACCINES; DESULFOVIBRIONACEAE INFECTIONS; FECES; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINAL DISEASES; INTESTINES; LAWSONIA BACTERIA; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALIA; LAWSONIA INTRACELLULARIS; SUS;

EID: 84860346385     PISSN: 00029645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/ajvr.73.5.741     Document Type: Article

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