Isolation of Mycobacterium species from raw milk of pastoral cattle of the Southern Highlands of Tanzania

Tropical Animal Health and Production

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 233-239

  Kazwala, R R ^a   Daborn, C J ^b   Kusiluka, L J M ^a   Jiwa, S F H ^a   Sharp, J M ^c   Kambarage, D M ^a  

^a SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Tanzania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c MOREDUN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIUM; CATTLE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MILK; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; TANZANIA;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; MILK; MYCOBACTERIA, ATYPICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; TANZANIA;

EID: 0032133753     PISSN: 00494747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005075112393     Document Type: Article

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