Nucleotide sequencing and analysis of 16S rDNA and 16S-23S rDNA internal spacer region (ISR) of taylorella equigenitalis, as an important pathogen for contagious equine metritis (CEM)

Veterinary Research Communications

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 343-355

  Kagawa, S ^a   Nagano, Y ^a   Tazumi, A ^a   Murayama, O ^a   Millar, B C ^b   Moore, J E ^b   Matsuda, M ^a  

^a AZABU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b BELFAST CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

16S rDNA; 16S 23S rDNA ISR; Cloning and sequencing; Contagious equine metritis; PCR; Taylorella equigenitalis

Indexed keywords

DNA 16S; DNA 23S; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; PRIMER DNA; TRANSFER RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASE; METRITIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TAYLORELLA EQUIGENITALIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; TAYLORELLA EQUIGENITALIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; TAYLORELLA EQUIGENITALIS;

EID: 33644502937     PISSN: 01657380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11259-006-3304-6     Document Type: Article

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