Demonstration of Mycoplasma capricolum subsp. capripneumoniae and Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. mycoides, Small Colony type in Outbreaks of Caprine Pleuropneumonia in Eastern Tanzania

Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 311-319

  Kusiluka, L J M ^a   Semuguruka, W D ^a   Kazwala, R R ^a   Ojeniy, B ^c   Friis, N F ^b  

^a SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Tanzania)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Goat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CONTAGIOUS PLEUROPNEUMONIA; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GOAT; GOAT DISEASE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA MYCOIDES; PATHOLOGY; TANZANIA;

ANIMALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; MALE; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA MYCOIDES; PLEUROPNEUMONIA, CONTAGIOUS; TANZANIA;

EID: 0033642014     PISSN: 0044605X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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