Bighorn sheep pneumonia: Sorting out the cause of a polymicrobial disease

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 108, Issue 2-3, 2013, Pages 85-93

  Besser, Thomas E ^a   Frances Cassirer, E ^b   Highland, Margaret A ^a,c   Wolff, Peregrine ^d   Justice Allen, Anne ^f   Mansfield, Kristin ^e   Davis, Margaret A ^a   Foreyt, William ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IDAHO DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^d Nevada Department of Wildlife   (United States)

^e ARIZONA GAME AND FISH DEPARTMENT   (United States)

^f WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bighorn sheep; Bronchopneumonia; Causal attribution; Etiology; Mannheimia haemolytica; Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae; Schwabe symposium paper

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; MANNHEIMIA HAEMOLYTICA; METASTRONGYLOIDEA; MICROBIOLOGY; MIXED INFECTION; MYCOPLASMA OVIPNEUMONIAE; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIA; NORTH AMERICA; PARASITOLOGY; PASTEURELLACEAE; PHYSIOLOGY; PNEUMONIC PASTEURELLOSIS; REVIEW; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE; STRONGYLE INFECTION;

ANIMALS; COINFECTION; MANNHEIMIA HAEMOLYTICA; METASTRONGYLOIDEA; MYCOPLASMA OVIPNEUMONIAE; NORTH AMERICA; PASTEURELLACEAE; PASTEURELLOSIS, PNEUMONIC; PNEUMONIA, MYCOPLASMA; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; SHEEP, BIGHORN; STRONGYLIDA INFECTIONS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MANNHEIMIA HAEMOLYTICA; METASTRONGYLOIDEA; MYCOPLASMA OVIPNEUMONIAE; OVIS ARIES; OVIS CANADENSIS; PASTEURELLACEAE;

EID: 84871642862     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2012.11.018     Document Type: Review

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