Brucellosis of the common vole (Microtus arvalis)

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 679-687

  Hubalek Z ^a   Scholz, H C ^b   Sedlacek I ^c   Melzer, F ^d   Sanogo, Y O ^a   Nesvadbova J ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b BUNDESWEHR INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^d FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CZECH REPUBLIC; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EDEMA; FEMALE; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; GRANULOMA; INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH MOUSE; MALE; MICROTUS ARVALIS; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OCHROBACTRUM; OCHROBACTRUM INTERMEDIUM; OMP2A GENE; OMP2B GENE; ORCHITIS; OUTBRED STRAIN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECA GENE; RRS GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SYMPTOM; VOLE; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; BLOOD; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS; CZECH REPUBLIC; FEMALE; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OCHROBACTRUM; RODENT DISEASES;

BRUCELLA; BRUCELLA SP.; MICROTUS ARVALIS; MUS; NEGIBACTERIA; OCHROBACTRUM; OCHROBACTRUM INTERMEDIUM;

EID: 37549008687     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2007.0143     Document Type: Article

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