Pet Snakes as a Reservoir for Salmonella enterica subsp. diarizonae (Serogroup IIIb): A Prospective Study

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 613-615

  Schröter, Matthias ^a   Roggentin, Peter ^b   Hofmann, Jörg ^c   Speicher, Angelika ^a   Laufs, Rainer ^a   Mack, Dietrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b Abt Mikrobiolog Verbraucherschutz   (Germany)

^c NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SCREENING;

COLONIZATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYGIENE; NONHUMAN; REPTILE; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLOSIS; SEROTYPE; SNAKE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FECES; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; SEROTYPING; VIPERIDAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; REPTILIA; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA SUBSP. DIARIZONAE; SERPENTES;

EID: 0347760330     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.1.613-615.2004     Document Type: Article

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