Characterization of 'Candidatus Clavochlamydia salmonicola': An intracellular bacterium infecting salmonid fish

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 208-218

  Karlsen, Marius ^a   Nylund, Are ^a   Watanabe, Kuninori ^a   Helvik, Jon V ^a   Nylund, Stian ^a   Plarre, Heidrun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIACEAE; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLASSIFICATION; ECOLOGY; FISH DISEASE; GENETICS; GILL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NORWAY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SALMONID; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLAMYDIACEAE; CHLAMYDIACEAE INFECTIONS; ECOLOGY; FISH DISEASES; FRESH WATER; GILLS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NORWAY; PHYLOGENY; SALMONIDAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDATUS PISCICHLAMYDIA SALMONIS; CHLAMYDIACEAE; CHLAMYDIAE; SALMO SALAR; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 38149053603     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01445.x     Document Type: Article

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