Profiles of fragments after pulsed-field gel electrophoresis of cleaved genomic DNA from strains of Taylorella equigenitalis isolated from horses in Norway

Microbiological Research

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 217-220

  Matsuda, M ^a   Miyazawa, T ^a   Ishida, Y ^a   Moore, J E ^b  

^a AZABU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b BELFAST CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contagious equine metris; Genotyping; Molecular epidemiology; Pulsed field gel electrophoresis; Taylorella equigenitalis

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; HAEMOPHILUS; TAYLORELLA EQUIGENITALIS;

EID: 0031194931     PISSN: 09445013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0944-5013(97)80015-8     Document Type: Article

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