Determination of epidemiological relationships of Streptococcus agalactiae isolated from bovine mastitis

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 226, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 87-92

  Merl, Kristin ^a   Abdulmawjood, Amir ^b   Lämmler, Christoph ^b   Zschöck, Michael ^c  

^a Veterinärdezernat ^*  (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Staatliches Untersuchungsamt Hessen   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bovine mastitis; Pheno and genotyping; Streptococcus agalactiae

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN APAI; PROTEIN SALI; PROTEIN SMAI; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; RIBOSOME DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; MINOCYCLINE; TETRACYCLINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CATTLE DISEASE; DAIRYING; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC CODE; GERMANY; HYDROPHOBICITY; MASTITIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT; SEROTYPING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CATTLE; CLASSIFICATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; DRUG EFFECT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; HEMAGGLUTINATION; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

BOVINAE; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP B';

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CATTLE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GERMANY; HEMAGGLUTINATION; MASTITIS, BOVINE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MINOCYCLINE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; TETRACYCLINE;

EID: 0642308256     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00564-0     Document Type: Article

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