Weissella confusa infection in primate (Cercopithecus mona)

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1307-1309

  Vela, Ana I ^a   Porrero, Concepción ^a   Goyache, Joaquín ^a   Nieto, Ana ^a   Sánchez, Belen ^a   Briones, Víctor ^a   Moreno, Miguel Angel ^a   Domínguez, Lucas ^a   Fernández Garayzábal, José F ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; RNA 16S;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BRAIN; CERCOPITHECUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INTESTINE; LACTOBACILLUS; LIVER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SPLEEN; WEISSELLA CONFUSA;

EID: 0141866790     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0910.020667     Document Type: Article

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