Phenotypic and genotypic properties of Streptococcus equi subsp. zooepidemicus isolated from harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) from the German North Sea during the phocine distemper outbreak in 2002

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 110, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 147-152

  Akineden, O ^a   Hassan, A A ^a   Alber, J ^a   El Sayed, A ^a   Estoepangestie, A T S ^b   Lammler C ^a   Weiss, R ^a   Siebert, U ^c  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b AIRLANGGA UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Harbor seal; Outbreak; Phocine distemper virus; Streptococcus equi subsp. zooepidemicus

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; SPACER DNA;

ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BETA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; GERMANY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHOCINE DISTEMPER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEAL; SEROLOGY; SPECIES COMPARISON; STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI ZOOEPIDEMICUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISTEMPER; DISTEMPER VIRUS, PHOCINE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENOTYPE; NORTH SEA; PHENOTYPE; PHOCA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI;

PHOCA; PHOCA VITULINA; PHOCINE DISTEMPER VIRUS; STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI SUBSP. ZOOEPIDEMICUS;

EID: 24644469609     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2005.06.010     Document Type: Article

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