A highly pathogenic strain of Staphylococcus sciuri caused fatal exudative epidermitis in piglets

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Chen, Shixi ^a   Wang, Yu ^a   Chen, Fuyong ^a   Yang, Hanchun ^a   Gan, Menghou ^a   Zheng, Shijun J ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA 23S;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN INFLAMMATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HYICUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SCIURI; SWINE; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; EXUDATIVE EPIDERMITIS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HYICUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SCIURI;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; EPIDERMITIS, EXUDATIVE, OF SWINE; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; SURVIVAL RATE; SWINE;

EID: 55249083795     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000147     Document Type: Article

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