Coxiellosis in domestic and wild birds from Japan

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 310-316

  To, Ho ^a   Sakai, Ritsuko ^a   Shirota, Kazutoshi ^a   Kano, Chiaki ^a   Abe, Satomi ^a   Sugimoto, Tomoaki ^a   Takehara, Kazuaki ^b   Morita, Chiharu ^c   Takashima, Ikuo ^d   Maruyama, Tsutomu ^e   Yamaguchi, Tsuyoshi ^a   Fukushi, Hideto ^a   Hirai, Katsuya ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c RAKUNO GAKUEN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e AZABU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coxiella burnetii; Domestic birds; Microaglutination test; Nested polymerase chain reaction; Q fever; Survey; Wild birds

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIRD; BIRD DISEASE; BLOOD; COXIELLA BURNETII; DISEASE CARRIER; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; JAPAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; Q FEVER; WILD ANIMAL;

AGGLUTINATION TESTS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANIMALS, WILD; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; COXIELLA BURNETII; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DNA, BACTERIAL; JAPAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; Q FEVER;

EID: 0032040190     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-34.2.310     Document Type: Article

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