Association between an outbreak strain causing mycoplasma bovis mastitis and its asymptomatic carriage in the herd: A case study from Idaho, USA

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 66-70

  Punyapornwithaya, V ^a   Fox, L K ^a   Hancock, D D ^a   Gay, J M ^a   Alldredge, J R ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fingerprinting; Mastitis; Mycoplasma bovis; Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BOVINE MASTITIS; CATTLE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MYCOPLASMA BOVIS; MYCOPLASMOSIS; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CATTLE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; IDAHO; MASTITIS, BOVINE; MYCOPLASMA BOVIS; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS;

ANIMALIA; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA BOVIS; MYCOPLASMA CALIFORNICUM;

EID: 73449118544     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2009.08.008     Document Type: Article

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