contagious abortion
brucellosis of domestic cattle, an infectious disease characterized by spontaneous abortion and caused by the bacterium Brucella abortus; Bang's disease.
any of several diseases causing spontaneous abortion of domestic animals, as vibriosis or salmonellosis.
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Very frequently it is a result of contagious abortion, and this should always be suspected.
Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry | Pratt Food Co.Such cases are pure accidents and are not to be considered along with contagious abortion.
Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry | Pratt Food Co.The money-making value of a herd in which the germs of contagious abortion are permitted to exist will be completely destroyed.
Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry | Pratt Food Co.The transmissibility of contagious abortion of cows appears to have been demonstrated experimentally for the first time by Brauer.
Contagious Abortion of Cows | Ward J. MacNealNocard carried out the first extensive bacteriological investigation of contagious abortion.
Contagious Abortion of Cows | Ward J. MacNeal
British Dictionary definitions for contagious abortion
another name for brucellosis
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