Investigation of reservoir animals of Leptospira in the northern part of Miyazaki Prefecture

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 465-468

  Koizumi, Nobuo ^a   Muto, Maki ^a   Yamamoto, Seigo ^b   Baba, Yoshitaka ^c   Kudo, Momotoshi ^c   Tamae, Yoshinobu ^d   Shimomura, Koji ^e   Takatori, Ichiro ^b   Iwakiri, Akira ^b   Ishikawa, Koji ^f   Soma, Hirotoshi ^f   Watanabe, Haruo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b Miyazaki Prefectural Institute for Public Health and Environment   (Japan)

^c Nobeoka Public Health Center   (Japan)

^d Takachiho Public Health Center   (Japan)

^e Hyuga Public Health Center   (Japan)

^f Miyazaki Prefecture ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN FLAB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMPLICON; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DISEASE CARRIER; DNA EXTRACTION; DOG; JAPAN; KIDNEY; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIRA BORGPETERSENII; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; WILD BOAR; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; DEER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEPTOSPIROSIS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MURINAE; RODENT DISEASE; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DEER; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DOGS; HUMANS; JAPAN; KIDNEY; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MURINAE; RODENT DISEASES; SUS SCROFA; SWINE DISEASES;

EID: 58149388283     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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