Listeria monocytogenes Septicaemia and Concurrent Clostridial Infection in an Adult Alpaca (Lama pacos)

Journal of Comparative Pathology

Volumn 139, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 126-129

  Seehusen, F ^a   Lehmbecker, A ^a   Puff, C ^a   Kleinschmidt, S ^a   Klein, S ^a   Baumgartner W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

alpaca; bacterial infection; Clostridium perfringens; Lama pacos; Listeria monocytogenes

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; CLOSTRIDIUM TOXIN;

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; ARTIODACTYLA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS TYPE A; COLITIS; DIARRHEA; HEPATITIS; ILEITIS; ILEUM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LIVER; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTICEMIA; SMALL INTESTINE; SPLEEN DISEASE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CAMELIDS, NEW WORLD; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; DNA, BACTERIAL; LISTERIA INFECTIONS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEPSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS A; LAMA PACOS; LISTERIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 48949094207     PISSN: 00219975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcpa.2008.05.002     Document Type: Article

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