Detection of Lawsonia intracellularis in faeces of swine from the main producing regions in Brazil

Canadian Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 230-234

  Nascimento Chiriboga, Adriana E C ^a   Guimarães, Walter V ^a   Vanetti, Maria Cristina D ^a   Araújo, Elza F ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Incidence; Lawsonia intracellularis; PCR; Proliferative enteropathy

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROPATHY; FECES; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; LAWSONIA INTRACELLULARIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; DNA, BACTERIAL; FECES; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; INCIDENCE; INTESTINES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAESALPINIA CILIATA; LAWSONIA INTRACELLULARIS; NEGIBACTERIA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0032869808     PISSN: 00084166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/cjm-45-3-230     Document Type: Article

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