Isolation and identification of Taylorella asinigenitalis from the genital tract of a stallion, first case of a natural infection

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 294-300

  Baverud V ^a   Nystrom C ^b   Johansson, K E ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences ^*  (Sweden)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

16S rRNA sequencing; Contagious equine metritis; Diagnostics; Horse; Phylogeny; Taylorella asinigenitalis; Taylorella equigenitalis

Indexed keywords

CHLORHEXIDINE; GENTAMICIN; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BREED; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENITAL SYSTEM; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GROWTH RATE; METRITIS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PENIS GLANS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STALLION; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; TAYLORELLA; TAYLORELLA ASINIGENITALIS; URETHRA;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TAYLORELLA; TAYLORELLA EQUIGENITALIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CARANGIDAE; EQUIDAE; EQUUS ASINUS; NEGIBACTERIA; TAYLORELLA; TAYLORELLA ASINIGENITALIS; TAYLORELLA EQUIGENITALIS;

EID: 33747131748     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2006.04.027     Document Type: Article

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