Getting a grip on strangles: Recent progress towards improved diagnostics and vaccines

Veterinary Journal

Volumn 173, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 492-501

  Waller, Andrew S ^a   Jolley, Keith A ^b  

^a ANIMAL HEALTH TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Strangles; Subtyping; Vaccines; Virulence

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LIVE VACCINE; STREPTOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ALLELE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG EFFICACY; HORSE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOGENICITY; INFECTION PREVENTION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; REVIEW; STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; VACCINATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCAL VACCINES; STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI; VACCINATION; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EQUIDAE; STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI;

EID: 34248150223     PISSN: 10900233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tvjl.2006.05.011     Document Type: Review

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