Isolation of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis from non-ruminant wildlife living in the sheds and on the pastures of Greek sheep and goats

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 136, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 644-652

  Florou, M ^a   Leontides, L ^a   Kostoulas, P ^a   Billinis, C ^a   Sofia, M ^a   Kyriazakis, I ^a   Lykotrafitis, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BOVIDS; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FECES ANALYSIS; FOX; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GOAT; HARE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM PARATUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RAT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHEEP; WILDLIFE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANIMALS, WILD; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENDEMIC DISEASES; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FECES; GENOTYPE; GREECE; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM SUBSP. PARATUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH;

EID: 41549159395     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S095026880700893X     Document Type: Article

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