Association of unique, isolated treponemes with bovine digital dermatitis lesions

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 689-696

  Evans, Nicholas J ^a   Brown, Jennifer M ^a   Demirkan, Ibrahim ^a,d   Singh, Prem ^a,b   Getty, Brian ^a   Timofte, Dorina ^a   Vink, W Daan ^a   Murray, Richard D ^a   Blowey, Roger W ^c   Birtles, Richard J ^a   Hart, C Anthony ^a   Carter, Stuart D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b CCS HARYANA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c WOOD VETERINARY GROUP   (United Kingdom)

^d AFYON KOCATEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ANAEROBE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BOVINE DIGITAL DERMATITIS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; DERMATITIS; DNA EXTRACTION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE SEQUENCE; HAIR FOLLICLE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEBACEOUS GLAND; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREPONEMA; TREPONEMA DENTICOLA; TREPONEMA PHAGEDENSIS; TREPONEMA PUTIDUM; TREPONEMA VINCENTII;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DERMATITIS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, RRNA; GREAT BRITAIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SKIN DISEASES, BACTERIAL; TREPONEMA; TREPONEMAL INFECTIONS;

BOS; BOVINAE; TREPONEMA; TREPONEMA PHAGEDENIS;

EID: 62749142587     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01914-08     Document Type: Article

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