Virulence characteristics of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis isolated from breeding monkeys in Japan

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 129, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 404-409

  Iwata, Taketoshi ^a   Une, Yumi ^b   Okatani, Alexandre Tomomitsu ^b   Kato, Yukio ^b   Nakadai, Aya ^a   Lee, Ken Ichi ^a   Watanabe, Maiko ^a   Taniguchi, Takahide ^a   Elhelaly, AbdelAzim Elsayed ^a   Hirota, Yoshikazu ^a   Hayashidani, Hideki ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b AZABU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breeding monkey; Virulence genes; Yersinia pseudotuberculosis; YPM

Indexed keywords

SUPERANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BREEDING; MONKEY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; SEROTYPE; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS; YERSINIOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HAPLORHINI; JAPAN; MALE; MONKEY DISEASES; SEROTYPING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS INFECTIONS;

YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 43049171635     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2007.11.029     Document Type: Article

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