Preliminary investigation of bovine tuberculosis in suspected beef from a metropolitan abattoir in ghana with ziehl-neelsen microscopy

Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences

Volumn 12, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 1222-1225

  Adu Bobi, N A K ^a   Mak Mensah, E E ^b   Achel, D G ^a   Gyamfi, O K ^a   Bedzra, K D ^a  

^a Ghana Atomic Energy Commission   (Ghana)

^b KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Acid fast bacilli; Bovine tuberculosis; Mycobacterium bovis; Ziehl Neelsen microscopy

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; GHANA; LUNG; MEAT; MEAT INDUSTRY; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PATHOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; GHANA; LUNG; MEAT; MEAT-PACKING INDUSTRY; MICROSCOPY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS, BOVINE; ZOONOSES;

BACILLI (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS; BOVINAE; CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS;

EID: 70349999397     PISSN: 10288880     EISSN: 18125735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/pjbs.2009.1222.1225     Document Type: Article

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