Changes in the equine fecal microbiota associated with the use of systemic antimicrobial drugs

BMC Veterinary Research

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Costa, Marcio C ^a   Stämpfli, Henry R ^a   Arroyo, Luis G ^a   Allen Vercoe, Emma ^b   Gomes, Roberta G ^c   Weese, J Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF LONDRINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Antimicrobial associated diarrhea; Horses; Intestinal bacteria; Intestinal microbiota; Microbiome

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EQUIDAE; VERRUCOMICROBIA;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; CEFTIOFUR; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; DRUG COMBINATION; PROCAINE PENICILLIN; SULFADOXINE; TRIMETHOPRIM; TRIMETHOPRIM, SULFADOXINE DRUG COMBINATION;

ANIMAL; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG EFFECTS; FECES; FEMALE; GENETICS; HORSE; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; VETERINARY;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CEPHALOSPORINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FECES; FEMALE; HORSES; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; MICROBIOTA; PENICILLIN G PROCAINE; SULFADOXINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

EID: 84924228298     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17466148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12917-015-0335-7     Document Type: Article

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