Spirochaetes and other bacterial species associated with bovine digital dermatitis

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 156, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 37-41

  Collighan, Russell J ^a   Woodward, Martin J ^a  

^a VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

16S RNA; Classification; Digital dermatitis; Polymerase chain reaction; Spirochete

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTEROIDES; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATITIS; FOOT; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIROCHETE; TREPONEMA DENTICOLA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTEROIDES; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; FOOT DISEASES; GENES, BACTERIAL; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOUTH; MYCOPLASMA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPIROCHAETACEAE; SPIROCHAETALES INFECTIONS; TREPONEMA;

EID: 0031278066     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00399-6     Document Type: Article

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