Identification of a serogroup Bataviae Leptospira strain isolated from an ox in Zimbabwe

Zentralblatt fur Bakteriologie

Volumn 289, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 19-29

  Feresu, Sara Baisai ^a   Bolin, Carole Ann ^b   Van De Kemp, Herman ^c   Korver, Hans ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

^b NATIONAL ANIMAL DISEASE CENTER   (United States)

^c ROYAL TROPICAL INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS AGGLUTININ ABSORPTION; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; OX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEROLOGY; ZIMBABWE;

LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIRA KIRSCHNERI;

EID: 0033083932     PISSN: 09348840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0934-8840(99)80118-2     Document Type: Article

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