Severe Streptococcus infection in spotted hyenas in the Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 115, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 223-228

  Höner, Oliver P ^a   Wachter, Bettina ^a   Speck, Stephanie ^a   Wibbelt, Gudrun ^a   Ludwig, Arne ^a   Fyumagwa, Robert D ^b   Wohlsein, Peter ^c   Lieckfeldt, Dietmar ^a   Hofer, Heribert ^a   East, Marion L ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b TANZANIA WILDLIFE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crocuta crocuta; Livestock; Ngorongoro Crater; Spotted hyena; Streptococcus equi subsp. ruminatorum; Wildlife

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ABSCESS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CARNIVORA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDEMIC; GOAT; HEAD; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORSE; LETHARGY; MANDIBLE; MASTITIS; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SHEEP; SPAIN; STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP C; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; SWELLING; TANZANIA; WILDLIFE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EQUIDAE; FOOD CHAIN; HYAENIDAE; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI; TANZANIA;

ATAXIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAPRA HIRCUS; CROCUTA CROCUTA; EQUUS BURCHELLII; OVIS ARIES; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI; STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI SUBSP. RUMINATORUM; STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP C';

EID: 33646802602     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2005.12.018     Document Type: Article

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