Additional evidence of the facultative intracellular nature of the fish bacterial pathogen Piscirickettsia salmonis

Archivos de Medicina Veterinaria

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 261-267

  Gomez F ^a   Henriquez V ^a,b   Marshall, S H ^a,b  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE VALPARAÍSO   (Chile)

^b CREAS   (Chile)

Author keywords

Facultative intracellular; Genomic analysis; Piscirickettsia salmonis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PISCIRICKETTSIA SALMONIS; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 75449090130     PISSN: 0301732X     EISSN: 07176201     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4067/S0301-732X2009000300011     Document Type: Article

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