Bacteria of pathogenic importance in faeces from cadavers of free-ranging or corralled semi-domesticated reindeer in northern Norway

Veterinary Research Communications

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 93-100

  Aschfalk, Ansgar ^a   Kemper, N ^b   Holler C ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clostridium perfringens; Escherichia coli; Management; Reindeer; Shigatoxin 1,2

Indexed keywords

SHIGA TOXIN; VEROTOXIN 1; VEROTOXIN 2;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM EXAMINATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CADAVER; CAMPYLOBACTER; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; DOMESTICATION; FECES; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENETIC CODE; HOME RANGE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LISTERIA; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NORWAY; PATHOGENICITY; REINDEER; SALMONELLA; SAMPLE SIZE; YERSINIA;

ANIMAL DISEASES; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CADAVER; CAMPYLOBACTER; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; FECES; FEMALE; LISTERIA; MALE; NORWAY; REINDEER; SALMONELLA; SHIGA-LIKE TOXIN I; SHIGA-LIKE TOXIN II; YERSINIA;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAMPYLOBACTER; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LISTERIA; RANGIFER TARANDUS; SALMONELLA; YERSINIA;

EID: 0037311483     PISSN: 01657380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022802918630     Document Type: Article

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