Epidemiology of Helicobacter infection in wild rodents in the Xinjiang-Uygur autonomous region of China

Current Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 221-223

  Goto, Kazuo ^a,e   Jiang, Wei ^b   Zheng, Qiang ^a   Oku, Yuzaburo ^c   Kamiya, Hamo ^d   Itoh, Toshio ^a   Ito, Mamoru ^a  

^a CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIMENTAL ANIMALS   (Japan)

^b Xinjiang Ctr for Dis Prev Contr   (China)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BRACHIONES PRZEWALSKII; CHINA; DIPUS SAGITTA; EUCHOREUTES NASO; GERBIL; HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER APODEMUS; HELICOBACTER BILIS; HELICOBACTER CANADENSIS; HELICOBACTER HEPATICUS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HELICOBACTER RODENTIUM; HELICOBACTER SUNCUS; HELICOBACTER WINGHAMENSIS; JERBOA; MERIONES MERIDIANUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NESOKIA INDICA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHOMBOMYS OPIMUS; RNA SEQUENCE; RODENT DISEASE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; APODEMUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRACHIONES PRZEWALSKII; DIPUS SAGITTA; EUCHOREUTES NASO; GERBILLINAE; HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER APODEMUS; HELICOBACTER BILIS; HELICOBACTER CANADENSIS; HELICOBACTER HEPATICUS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HELICOBACTER RODENTIUM; HELICOBACTER SUNCUS; HELICOBACTER WINGHAMENSIS; MERIONES MERIDIANUS; NASO; NESOKIA INDICA; RHOMBOMYS OPIMUS; RODENTIA; SAGITTA; SUNCUS;

EID: 4344638897     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-004-4287-6     Document Type: Article

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