Environmental occurrence of the Whipple's disease bacterium (Tropheryma whippelii)

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 760-762

  Maiwald, Matthias ^a   Schuhmacher, Frank ^a   Ditton, Hans Jürgen ^a   Von Herbay, Axel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 16S;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EFFLUENT; ENVIRONMENT; GERMANY; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; NONHUMAN; RNA GENE; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; WASTE WATER;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; TROPHERYMA WHIPPLEI;

EID: 0031913564     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.2.760-762.1998     Document Type: Article

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