A novel Mycoplasma sp. associated with proliferative tracheitis and pneumonia in a Burmese python (Python molurus bivittatus)

Journal of Comparative Pathology

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 283-288

  Penner, J D ^a   Jacobson, E R ^a   Brown, D R ^a   Adams, H P ^a   Besch Williford, C L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MYCOPLASMA; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SNAKE; TRACHEITIS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA AGASSIZII; MYCOPLASMA SP.; PYTHON MOLURUS BIVITTATUS; REPTILIA; SERPENTES;

EID: 0030785291     PISSN: 00219975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9975(97)80024-2     Document Type: Article

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