Immunomagnetic isolation of Streptococcus suis serotypes 2 and 1/2 from swine tonsils

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 2877-2881

  Gottschalk, Marcelo ^a   Lacouture, Sonia ^a   Odierno, Liliana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2B; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; SIALIC ACID;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS; SWINE; TONSIL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS;

EID: 0032780981     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.37.9.2877-2881.1999     Document Type: Article

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