The use of multilocus enzyme electrophoresis to characterise intestinal spirochaetes (Brachyspira spp.) colonising hens in commercial flocks

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 107, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 149-157

  Stephens, Carol P ^a   Oxberry, Sophy L ^b   Phillips, Nyree D ^b   La, Tom ^b   Hampson, David J ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES   (Australia)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Brachyspira; Chicken; Diarrhoea; MLEE; Spirochaete

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BRACHYSPIRA; BRACHYSPIRA INNOCENS; BRACHYSPIRA INTERMEDIA; BRACHYSPIRA MURDOCHII; BRACHYSPIRA PILOSICOLI; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROPHORESIS; FECES; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HERD; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE; INTESTINE INFECTION; MULTILOCUS ENZYME ELECTROPHORESIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPIROCHETE;

BRACHYSPIRA; BRACHYSPIRA INNOCENS; BRACHYSPIRA INTERMEDIA; BRACHYSPIRA MURDOCHII; BRACHYSPIRA PILOSICOLI; GALLUS GALLUS; SPIROCHAETA; SPIROCHAETES;

EID: 15744374056     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2005.01.011     Document Type: Article

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