Identification and differentiation of avirulent and virulent Rhodococcus equi using selective media and colony blotting DNA hybridization to determine their concentrations in the environment

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 100, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 121-127

  Muscatello, Gary ^a   Browning, Glenn F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Diagnosis bacteria; DNA hybridization; Rhodococcus equi

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; ENVIRONMENT; ISOTOPE LABELING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; SCREENING TEST; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; AIR MICROBIOLOGY; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

RHODOCOCCUS; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI;

EID: 2342456304     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2004.01.016     Document Type: Article

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