Serological, bacteriological, and molecular diagnosis of brucellosis in domestic animals in Croatia

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 320-326

  Špičić, Silvio ^a   Zdelar Tuk, Maja ^a   Račić, Ivana ^a   Duvnjak, Sanja ^a   Cvetnić, Željko ^a  

^a CROATIAN VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ROSE BENGAL; BACTERIAL DNA; GENOMIC DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; BRUCELLA OVIS; BRUCELLA SUIS; BRUCELLOSIS; CATTLE; COMPLEMENT FIXATION TEST; CROATIA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GOAT; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; SEROPREVALENCE; SHEEP; SWINE; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL TISSUE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROSE BENGAL TEST; SEROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS; CATTLE; CROATIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GOATS; HUMANS; LIVESTOCK; MALE; MOLECULAR TYPING; PREVALENCE; SHEEP; SWINE;

EID: 77955949054     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: 13328166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3325/cmj.2010.51.320     Document Type: Article

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