Molecular identification of a novel deltaproteobacterium as the etiologic agent of epizootic bovine abortion (foothill abortion)

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 604-609

  King, Donald P ^a,d   Chen, Ching I ^a   Blanchard, Myra T ^a   Aldridge, Brian M ^a   Anderson, Mark ^a   Walker, Richard ^a   Maas, John ^b   Hanks, Don ^c   Hall, Mark ^c   Stott, Jeffrey L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ABORTION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CATTLE DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; DISEASE CARRIER; DNA EXTRACTION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIZOOTIC BOVINE ABORTION; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DISEASE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MYXOCOCCALES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORNITHODOROS CORIACEUS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYMUS; TICK; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; UNITED STATES;

ABORTION, VETERINARY; ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORNITHODOROS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYNDROME; THYMUS GLAND;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; ARGASID; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; MYXOCOCCALES; ORNITHODOROS CORIACEUS;

EID: 20844457112     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.43.2.604-609.2005     Document Type: Article

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