Investigation of animal botulism outbreaks by PCR and standard methods

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 279-285

  Fach, Patrick ^a   Gibert, Maryse ^b   Griffais, Remy ^b   Popoff, Michel R ^b  

^a Healthy Pigs Production and Experimentation Section   (France)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BOTULISM; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD CONTROL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029979119     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0928-8244(95)00121-2     Document Type: Article

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