Quantitation of Guggenheimella bovis and treponemes in bovine tissues related to digital dermatitis

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 269, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 48-53

  Strub, Sarah ^a   Van Der Ploeg, Jan R ^b   Nuss, Karl ^c   Wyss, Chris ^b   Luginbühl, Andreas ^d   Steiner, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Center for Dental and Oral Medicine and Cranio Maxillofacial Surgery   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d Tierarztpraxis   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cattle; Digital dermatitis; Guggenheimella bovis; Quantitative PCR; Treponema

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CLOSTRIDIA; COW; DERMATITIS; GUGGENHEIMELLA BOVIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE; TREPONEMA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DERMATITIS; SWITZERLAND; TREPONEMA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS; BOVINAE; GUGGENHEIMELLA; GUGGENHEIMELLA BOVIS; TREPONEMA;

EID: 33847690366     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2006.00604.x     Document Type: Article

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