Molecular characterization of two different strains of haemotropic mycoplasmas from a sheep flock with fatal haemolytic anaemia and concomitant Anaplasma ovis infection

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 136, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 372-377

  Hornok, Sándor ^a   Meli, Marina L ^b   Erdos, András ^c   Hajtós, István ^c   Lutz, Hans ^b   Hofmann Lehmann, Regina ^b  

^a SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c County Veterinary Station ^*  (Hungary)

Author keywords

Anaemia; Anaplasma ovis; Haemotropic mycoplasmas; Mycoplasma ovis; Sheep

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASMA OVIS; ANAPLASMATACEAE INFECTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATALITY; GENE SEQUENCE; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCOPLASMA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RISK FACTOR; SHEEP;

ANAPLASMA OVIS; ANIMALIA; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA OVIS; MYCOPLASMATALES; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 64849099203     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2008.10.031     Document Type: Article

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