Prevalence of Streptococcus suis genotypes in wild boars of Northwestern Germany

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 711-717

  Baums, Christoph G ^a   Verkühlen, Gerd Josef ^a   Rehm, Thomas ^a   Silva, Luciana M G ^a   Beyerbach, Martin ^a   Pohlmeyer, Klaus ^a   Valentin Weigand, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DISEASES; GENES; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES;

BUTCHERING; GERMANY; PORCINE STRAINS; TONSILS;

BACTERIA;

HEMOLYSIN;

BACTERIUM; GENOTYPE; ISOLATED POPULATION; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PATHOGEN; PIG; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WILD POPULATION;

ARTICLE; CPS2 GENE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPF GENE; GENE; GENOTYPE; GERMANY; MENINGITIS; MRP GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SEROTYPE; SLY GENE; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SWINE; TONSIL;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENOTYPE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PREVALENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SUS SCROFA; SWINE DISEASES; TONSIL;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SUIDAE; SUS; SUS SCROFA; SUS SCROFA DOMESTICA;

EID: 33846928912     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01800-06     Document Type: Article

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