Non-pathogenic Actinobacillus isolates antigenically and biochemically similar to Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae: A novel species?

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 92, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 87-101

  Gottschalk, M ^a   Broes, A ^b   Mittal, K R ^a   Kobisch, M ^c   Kuhnert, P ^d   Lebrun, A ^a   Frey, J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b Ctr de Devmt du Porc du Quebec   (Canada)

^c Healthy Pigs Production and Experimentation Section   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Actinobacillus spp.; Serologic cross reactions; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; BACTERIAL TOXIN; RNA 16S;

ACTINOBACILLUS PLEUROPNEUMONIAE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INOCULATION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROTYPE; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE;

ACTINOBACILLUS; ACTINOBACILLUS INFECTIONS; AGGLUTINATION TESTS; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; DNA, BACTERIAL; HEMAGGLUTINATION TESTS; IMMUNODIFFUSION; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; VIRULENCE;

ACTINOBACILLUS; ACTINOBACILLUS PLEUROPNEUMONIAE; ANIMALIA; MYCOPLASMA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 18744415968     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1135(02)00341-3     Document Type: Article

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