Occurrence of a monophasic strain of Salmonella group B isolated from cetaceans in England and Wales between 1990 and 2002

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2462-2468

  Valderrama Vasquez, Carlos A ^a,b   Macgregor, Shaheed K ^a   Rowcliffe, J Marcus ^a   Jepson, Paul D ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b Fundación Vida Silvestre Neotropical   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL SALMONELLOSIS; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG; MICROBIOLOGY; PORPOISE; PREVALENCE; SALMONELLA; SEROTYPING; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; ENGLAND; LUNG; PHOCOENA; PREVALENCE; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; SEROTYPING; WALES;

CETACEA; PHOCOENA PHOCOENA; PHOCOENIDAE; SALMONELLA;

EID: 48749101252     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01651.x     Document Type: Article

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