Detection of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis in two brown bears in the Central European Carpathians

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 691-695

  Kopecna, Marketa ^a   Ondrus, Stanislav ^b   Literak, Ivan ^c   Klimes, Jiri ^c   Horvathova, Alica ^a   Moravkova, Monika ^a   Bartos, Milan ^a   Trcka, Ivo ^a   Pavlik, Ivo ^a  

^a VETERINARY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

^b Administration of the National Park Low Tatras   (Slovakia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Carnivores; Epidemiology; Johne's disease; Mycobacterium avium; Paratuberculosis; Wildlife

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVIDAE; CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM SUBSP. PARATUBERCULOSIS; URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 33845308234     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-42.3.691     Document Type: Article

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