Isolation and characterisation of Mycobacterium a vium and Rhodococcus equi from granulomatous lesions of swine lymph nodes in Slovenia

Acta Veterinaria Hungarica

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 143-150

  Pate, Mateja ^a   Zdovc, Irena ^a   Pirš, Tina ^a   Krt, B ^a   Ocepek, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Mycobacterium avium; PCR; Pigs; Rhodococcus equi; Tuberculosis; Virulence associated antigens

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM EQUI; GENOTYPE; GRANULOMATOSIS; LYMPH NODE; MEAT INDUSTRY; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SLOVENIA; SWINE; VIRULENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; SWINE DISEASE; TUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; CORYNEBACTERINEAE; CORYNEBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; RHODOCOCCUS; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; SUS SCROFA;

ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; LYMPH NODES; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; SLOVENIA; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 2942592694     PISSN: 02366290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/AVet.52.2004.2.2     Document Type: Article

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