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Periódicos Brasileiros em Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia

p. 74-80

Conceitos atuais sobre biofilmes e bactérias latentes em casos clínicos de endometrite

Ferris, Ryan A

ubfertility in the mare can be frustrating to the clinician. Recent data has suggested that bacteria ineither a biofilm or latent state may be responsible for explaining many cases of subfertility. Recent work hasidentified how the pathophysiology for these type of chronic infections in the horse and identified the bestmethods for therapy. The goal of this discussion is to explain the pathophysiology of biofilm and latentinfections and how the clinician can diagnose and treat these type of infections in clinical practice.(AU)

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