Prevalence, risk factor analysis, and follow-up of infections caused by three feline hemoplasma species in cats in Switzerland

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 961-969

  Willi, Barbara ^a   Boretti, Felicitas S ^a   Baumgartner, Claudia ^a   Tasker, Séverine ^b   Wenger, Bettina ^a   Cattori, Valentine ^a   Meli, Marina L ^a   Reusch, Claudia E ^a   Lutz, Hans ^a   Hofmann Lehmann, Regina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DOXYCYCLINE; ENROFLOXACIN; METRONIDAZOLE; RNA 16S; SPIRAMYCIN;

AGE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANDIDATUS MYCOPLASMA HAEMOMINUTUM; CANDIDATUS MYCOPLASMA TURICENSIS; CAT DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FELINE IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; FELINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; GENE SEQUENCE; GINGIVA DISEASE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; INFECTION RISK; KIDNEY FAILURE; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MYCOPLASMA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK FACTOR; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SWITZERLAND; SYMPTOM;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAT DISEASES; CATS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENES, BACTERIAL; MALE; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK FACTORS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWITZERLAND;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDATUS MYCOPLASMA HAEMOMINUTUM; FELIDAE; FELINE IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; FELINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA HAEMOFELIS; MYCOPLASMA SP.;

EID: 33644886933     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.44.3.961-969.2006     Document Type: Article

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