Worldwide occurrence of feline hemoplasma infections in wild felid species

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1159-1166

  Willi, Barbara ^a   Filoni, Claudia ^b,c   Catão Dias, José L ^b,d   Cattori, Valentino ^a   Meli, Marina L ^a   Vargas, Astrid ^e   Martínez, Fernando ^e   Roelke, Melody E ^f   Ryser Degiorgis, Marie Pierre ^g   Leutenegger, Christian M ^h   Lutz, Hans ^a   Hofmann Lehmann, Regina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c Instituto Brasileiro para Medicina da Conservação Tríade São Paulo   (Brazil)

^d Fundacao Parque Zoologico de Sao Paulo   (Brazil)

^e Centro de Cría de Lince Ibérico El Acebuche   (Spain)

^f SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBONUCLEASE P; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S;

ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FELINE HEMOPLASMA INFECTION; FELINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; FRANCE; LYNX; MYCOPLASMA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SWITZERLAND; TANZANIA; WILD SPECIES;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOOD; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FELIDAE; FELIS; FEMALE; LIONS; LYNX; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PUMA; RIBONUCLEASE P; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

ANIMALIA; CANDIDATUS MYCOPLASMA HAEMOMINUTUM; FELIDAE; FELINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; FELIS CATUS; LEOPARDUS PARDALIS; LEOPARDUS WIEDII; LYNX; LYNX LYNX; MYCOPLASMA;

EID: 34247180737     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02005-06     Document Type: Article

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