Meanings
adjectivemetaphylactic (not comparable)
- not comparableRelating to metaphylaxis.
Additionally, cattle classified as having high risk of developing BRD, or any that were exhibiting signs of systemic illness or fever also received metaphylactic or therapeutic AMDs during initial processing; lower risk cattle and cattle without clinical BRD were not treated with AMDs at arrival.
2015 December 4, “Antimicrobial Resistance in Escherichia coli Recovered from Feedlot Cattle and Associations with Antimicrobial Use”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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