Mycoplasma conjunctivae infection is self-maintained in the Swiss domestic sheep population

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 11-22

  Janovsky, Martin ^a   Frey, Joachim ^a   Nicolet, Jacques ^a   Belloy, Luc ^a   Goldschmidt Clermont, Elinor ^a   Giacometti, Marco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Wildvet Projects   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Culture; ELISA; Epidemiology; Infectious keratoconjunctivitis; Mycoplasma conjunctivae; PCR; Sheep bacteria; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA CONJUNCTIVAE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION; SEROPREVALENCE; SHEEP; SWITZERLAND;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CARRIER STATE; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS, INFECTIOUS; MALE; MYCOPLASMA; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0035935263     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1135(01)00407-2     Document Type: Article

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