Application of Streptococcus uberis multilocus sequence typing: Analysis of the population structure detected among environmental and bovine isolates from New Zealand and the United Kingdom

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 1429-1436

  Pullinger, Gillian D ^a   López Benavides, Mario ^b   Coffey, Tracey J ^a   Williamson, John H ^b   Cursons, Ray T ^c   Summers, Emma ^b   Lacy Hulbert, Jane ^b   Maiden, Martin C ^d   Leigh, James A ^a,e  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

^b Dexcel Limited   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXATION; DAIRY PRODUCTS;

MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING (MLST); PATHOGEN; POPULATION BIOLOGY;

MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIAL DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MILK; POPULATION STRUCTURE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CATTLE; CLONOGENESIS; COMPLEX FORMATION; MASTITIS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; POPULATION BIOLOGY; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; STREPTOCOCCUS UBERIS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE; GREAT BRITAIN; MASTITIS, BOVINE; MILK; NEW ZEALAND; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; STREPTOCOCCUS UBERIS;

EID: 33144473272     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.72.2.1429-1436.2006     Document Type: Article

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