Biochemical fingerprinting and ribotyping of isolates of Actinobacillus equuli from healthy and diseased horses

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 53-65

  Sternberg, Susanna ^a   Brändström, Boel ^b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b NATIONAL VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Actinobacillus equuli; Biochemical fingerprinting; Pheneplate; Ribotyping; Subtyping

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT;

ACTINOBACILLOSIS; ACTINOBACILLUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; HORSE; MOUTH CAVITY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; RIBOTYPING;

ACTINOBACILLUS; ACTINOBACILLUS INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; MOUTH; PHYLOGENY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROTYPING;

ACTINOBACILLUS EQUULI; EQUIDAE;

EID: 0344629268     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1135(98)00303-4     Document Type: Article

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