Mycobacterium gordonae infection in a colony of African clawed frogs (Xenopus tropicalis)

Laboratory Animals

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 300-303

  Sánchez Morgado, José M ^a   Gallagher, Alec ^a   Johnson, Linda K ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amphibian; Mycobacterium; Polymerase chain reaction (PCR); Xenopus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM GORDONAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SKIN INFECTION; XENOPUS; XENOPUS TROPICALIS;

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM ANALYSIS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; DNA, BACTERIAL; GRANULOMA; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIA, ATYPICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SKIN DISEASES, BACTERIAL; XENOPUS;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM GORDONAE; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS TROPICALIS;

EID: 67650538538     PISSN: 00236772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/la.2008.008035     Document Type: Article

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