Isolation of virulent Rhodococcus equi from native Japanese horses

Comparative Immunology, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 123-133

  Takai, S ^a   Ogawa, K ^a   Fukunaga, N ^a   Sasaki, Y ^a   Kakuda, T ^a   Tsubaki, S ^a   Anzai, T ^b  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b EQUINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Isolation; Native Japanese horse; Rhodococcus equi; VapA; Virulence plasmid

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PLASMID DNA; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; FECES ANALYSIS; HORSE; JAPAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT; RHODOCOCCUS; SOIL;

ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; FECES; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; JAPAN; PLASMIDS; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; VIRULENCE;

EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI;

EID: 0035111089     PISSN: 01479571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0147-9571(00)00022-9     Document Type: Article

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