Routes of intraspecies transmission of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis in rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus): A field study

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 398-403

  Judge, Johanna ^a   Kyriazakis, Ilias ^a,b   Greig, Alastair ^a   Davidson, Ross S ^a   Hutchings, Michael R ^a  

^a SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOLOGY; BIODIVERSITY; MAINTENANCE; PATHOLOGY;

INTERSPECIES TRANSMISSION; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

BACTERIA;

ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; POLLUTANT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BOVIDS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; MILK; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; NONHUMAN; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; PARATUBERCULOSIS; PLACENTA; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; RABBIT; TESTIS; UNITED KINGDOM; UTERUS; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM PARATUBERCULOSIS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOVIDAE; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM SUBSP. PARATUBERCULOSIS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

ANIMALS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; MALE; MILK; MYCOBACTERIUM PARATUBERCULOSIS; PARATUBERCULOSIS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; RABBITS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TESTIS; UTERUS;

EID: 33644862882     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.72.1.398-403.2006     Document Type: Article

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