Isolation of Rhodococcus equi and atypical mycobacteria from lymph nodes of pigs and cattle in herds with the occurrence of tuberculoid gross changes in the Czech Republic over the period of 1996-1998

Veterinarni Medicina

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 321-330

  Dvorska L ^a   Parmova I ^b   Lavickova M ^b   Bartl, J ^a   Vrbas, V ^a   Pavlik I ^a  

^a VETERINARY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

^b State Veterinary Diagnostic Institute   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Caseification and calcification of tuberculoid nodules; Mycobacterium avium complex; Rhodococcus equi; Submaxillary and mesenteric lymph nodes; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345770786     PISSN: 03758427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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