Coinfection with intracellular Desulfovibrio species and coccidia in ferrets with proliferative bowel disease

Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 569-571

  Li, Xiantang ^a   Pang, Jingzhong ^a   Fox, James G ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; COCCIDIOSIS; COLITIS; DESULFOVIBRIO; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FERRET; HISTOLOGY; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; COCCIDIA; COCCIDIOSIS; COLITIS; COLON; DESULFOVIBRIO; FEMALE; FERRETS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON;

EID: 0029807751     PISSN: 00236764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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