LEPTOSPIROSIS AS A CAUSE OF REPRODUCTIVE FAILURE

Authors
ELLIS WA
Citation
Wa. Ellis, LEPTOSPIROSIS AS A CAUSE OF REPRODUCTIVE FAILURE, The Veterinary clinics of North America. Food animal practice, 10(3), 1994, pp. 463-478
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Veterinary Sciences
Journal title
The Veterinary clinics of North America. Food animal practice → ACNP
ISSN journal
07490720
Volume
10
Issue
3
Year of publication
1994
Pages
463 - 478
Database
ISI
SICI code
0749-0720(1994)10:3<463:LAACOR>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
Leptospirosis is a zoonotic disease caused by members of the genus Lep tospira. Veterinarians' preceptions of leptospirosis as a disease of d omestic animals has undergone considerable modification in the past de cade or so because they have increasingly appreciated the role of the host-maintained leptospires as causes of reproductive wastage in their respective host species kept under modern intensive management system s.