Mycoplasma haemocanis infection - A kennel disease?

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 404-409

  Kemming, Gregor I ^a   Messick, Joanne B ^d   Enders, Georg ^a   Boros, Mihaly ^b   Lorenz, Baerbel ^a   Muenzing, Silvia ^a   Kisch Wedel, Hille ^a   Mueller, Werner ^c   Hahmann Mueller, Agnes ^c   Messmer, Konrad ^a   Thein, Eckart ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^c Alomed Vet Analytical Laboratories   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; EDETIC ACID;

ANAPLASMATACEAE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD SMEAR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DOG; ERYTHROCYTE; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOASSAY; INFECTION RATE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MICROSCOPY; MYCOPLASMA HAEMOCANIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPLENECTOMY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 4143094111     PISSN: 15320820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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