Acute Deterioration and Death with Necrotizing Enteritis Associated with Lawsonia intracellularis in 4 Weanling Horses

Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1476-1480

  Page, A E ^a   Fallon, L H ^b   Bryant, U K ^a   Horohov, D W ^a   Luna, T W ^c   Marsh, P S ^c   Slovis, N M ^b   Sprayberry, K A ^b   Loynachan, A T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b HAGYARD EQUINE MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Equine Med Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteremia; Disseminated intravascular coagulation; Endotoxemia; Equine proliferative enteropathy

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DESULFOVIBRIONACEAE INFECTION; FATALITY; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; LAWSONIA; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; PATHOLOGY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; DESULFOVIBRIONACEAE INFECTIONS; ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; LAWSONIA BACTERIA; MALE;

EQUIDAE; LAWSONIA INTRACELLULARIS;

EID: 84869871088     PISSN: 08916640     EISSN: 19391676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-1676.2012.01002.x     Document Type: Article

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