Disease attributed to Mycobacterium chelonae in South African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis)

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 675-679

  Green, S L ^a   Lifland, B D ^a   Bouley, D M ^a   Brown, B A ^a   Wallace R J , Jr ^a   Ferrell J E , Jr ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FROG; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONEI; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; CALIFORNIA; FEMALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONAE; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; WEIGHT LOSS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0034510037     PISSN: 00236764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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