Detection of bacteria in equine synovial fluid by use of the polymerase chain reaction

Veterinary Surgery

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 195-198

  Crabill, M R ^a   Cohen, N D ^a   Martin, L J ^a   Simpson, R B ^a   Burney, N ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ACTINOBACILLUS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL SALMONELLOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALMONELLA ENTERITIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; SYNOVIAL FLUID;

ACTINOBACILLUS; ACTINOBACILLUS INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BACTEROIDES INFECTIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALMONELLA ENTERITIDIS; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI; SYNOVIAL FLUID;

EID: 0030133315     PISSN: 01613499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-950X.1996.tb01398.x     Document Type: Article

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