Laboratory identification and enteropathogenicity testing of Serpulina pilosicoli associated with porcine colonic spirochetosis

Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 165-171

  Muniappa, Nagaraja ^a   Mathiesen, Michelle R ^a   Duhamel, Gerald E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIPPURIC ACID; HIPPURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; RNA 16S;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRACHYSPIRA; CECUM; CHICKEN; CLASSIFICATION; COLON DISEASE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; INTESTINE MUCOSA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPIROCHETE INFECTION; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE; TIME; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; CECUM; CHICKENS; COLONIC DISEASES; GENOTYPE; HIPPURATES; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SERPULINA; SPIROCHAETALES INFECTIONS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; TIME FACTORS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0031113078     PISSN: 10406387     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/104063879700900210     Document Type: Article

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