Experimental infection of specific pathogen free piglets with French strains of Streptococcus suis capsular type 2

Canadian Journal of Veterinary Research

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 196-200

  Berthelot Hérault, Florence ^a   Cariolet, Roland ^a   Labbé, Annie ^a   Gottschalk, Marcelo ^b   Cardinal, Jean Yves ^c   Kobisch, Marylène ^a  

^a Healthy Pigs Production and Experimentation Section   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c CADS Productions Animales   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; FEMALE; GERMFREE ANIMAL; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE; TIME; TONSIL; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; TIME FACTORS; TONSIL; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0035405894     PISSN: 08309000     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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