Detection of Helicobacter in the digestive tract of an Atlantic spotted dolphin (Stenella frontalis)

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 622-626

  Suárez, Paula ^a   Contreras, Monica ^b   Fernández Delgado, Milagro ^a   Salazar, Victor ^b   Peña, Ruth ^c   Michelangell, Fabian ^b   García Amado, M Alexandra ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD SIMÓN BOLÍVAR   (Venezuela)

^b INSTITUTO VENEZOLANO DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS   (Venezuela)

^c Ministerio Del Poder Popular Para el Ambiente   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

16s rdna; Digestive tract; Helicobacter; Pcr; Stenella frontalis

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER CETORUM; MAMMALIA; STENELLA (CETACEA); STENELLA FRONTALIS;

BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ANIMAL; CASE REPORT; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DUODENUM; GENETICS; HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STENELLA; STOMACH; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DUODENUM; HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STENELLA; STOMACH;

EID: 77952386287     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-46.2.622     Document Type: Article

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