Leptospira wolffii, a potential new pathogenic Leptospira species detected in human, sheep and dog

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 273-277

  Zakeri, Sedigheh ^a   Khorami, Nargess ^a,b   Ganji, Zahra F ^a   Sepahian, Neda ^a   Malmasi, Abdol Ali ^b   Gouya, Mohammad Mehdi ^c   Djadid, Navid D ^a  

^a PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF IRAN   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^c Center for Diseases Management and Control Tehran   (Iran)

Author keywords

Dog; Human; Leptospira wolffii; Leptospirosis; Pathogenic; Sheep

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; DOG; HUMAN; IRAN; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIRA WOLFFII; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SERUM; SHEEP; URINALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAN; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; ZOONOSES;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 76849101579     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2010.01.001     Document Type: Article

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