Antimicrobial resistance in bacteria from breeding dogs housed in kennels with differing neonatal mortality and use of antibiotics

Theriogenology

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1321-1328

  Milani, C ^a   Corro M ^b   Drigo, M ^a   Rota, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLE VENEZIE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial resistance; Bitch; Neonatal death; Stillbirth

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIRTH; BREEDING; DOG; DRUG EFFECT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; MILK; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; SECRETION (PROCESS); STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STILLBIRTH; STREPTOCOCCUS; UDDER; VAGINA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; BREEDING; DOGS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MILK; PARTURITION; PREGNANCY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STILLBIRTH; STREPTOCOCCUS; VAGINA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANIDAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PSEUDINTERMEDIUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS CANIS;

EID: 84865765077     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2012.05.033     Document Type: Article

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