Evaluation of mucosal and seborrheic sites for staphylococci in two populations of captive psittacines

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 234, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 901-905

  Briscoe, Jeleen A ^a   Morris, Daniel O ^a   Rosenthal, Karen L ^a   Shofer, Frances S ^a   Rankin, Shelley C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALASE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MUCOSA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSITTACINE; SKIN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; CARRIER STATE; CATALASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; MALE; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSITTACIFORMES; SKIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CACATUIDAE; POSIBACTERIA; PSITTACIFORMES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HOMINIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INTERMEDIUS;

EID: 64549149390     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.234.7.901     Document Type: Article

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