Use of ribotyping and hemolysin activity to identify highly virulent Streptococcus suis type 2 isolates

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 15-19

  Staats, Jacque J ^a   Plattner, Brandon L ^a   Nietfeld, Jerome ^a   Dritz, Steve ^a   Chengappa, M M ^a,b  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Analytical and Toxicological Services   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DIGOXIGENIN; DNA; HEMOLYSIN; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; RIBOSOME RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; DNA PROBE; HYBRIDIZATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOTYPING; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STREPTOCOCCUS; SWINE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0031985490     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.36.1.15-19.1998     Document Type: Article

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