Outbreak of Streptococcus equi subsp. zooepidemicus infection in a group of rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta)

Journal of Medical Primatology

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 328-334

  Mätz Rensing, Kerstin ^a   Winkelmann, J ^a   Becker, T ^a   Burckhardt, I ^b,d   van Der Linden, M ^b   Kondgen S ^c   Leendertz, F ^c   Kaup, F J ^a  

^a GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^c ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Non human primate; Purulent bronchopneumonia; Respiratory disease; Streptococcus equi zooepidemicus

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AVIAPEN; ENROFLOXACIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABORTION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; CONJUNCTIVITIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDOMETRITIS; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HEPATITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LETHARGY; MACACA; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MIXED INFECTION; MONKEY DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PHARYNGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RHINITIS; SPLEEN DISEASE; STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI ZOOEPIDEMICUS; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

ANIMALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; LUNG; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MONKEY DISEASES; MYOCARDIUM; PREGNANCY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI;

ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; MACACA MULATTA; PRIMATES; STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI SUBSP. ZOOEPIDEMICUS; STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP C';

EID: 70149116799     PISSN: 00472565     EISSN: 16000684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0684.2009.00359.x     Document Type: Article

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