Dilemma of virulence of Streptococcus suis: Canadian isolate 89-1591 characterized as a virulent strain using a standardized experimental model in pigs

Canadian Journal of Veterinary Research

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 236-240

  Berthelot Hérault, Florence ^a   Gottschalk, Marcelo ^b   Morvan, Hervé ^c   Kobisch, Marylène ^a  

^a Healthy Pigs Production and Experimentation Section   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c Laboratoire de Developpement et d'Analyses des Cotes d'Armor   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL LAMENESS; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CANADA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FEVER; IMMUNITY; INOCULATION; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; STANDARDIZATION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SWINE DISEASE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; TIME FACTORS; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 23844475093     PISSN: 08309000     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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