Disease producing capability of netB positive isolates of C. perfringens recovered from normal chickens and a cow, and netB positive and negative isolates from chickens with necrotic enteritis

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 146, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 76-84

  Smyth, Joan A ^a   Martin, Thomas G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Bovine; Chicken; Clostridium perfringens; Necrotic Enteritis; NetB; Poultry

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; NETB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHICKEN; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; DISEASE SEVERITY; MALE; NECROTIZING ENTERITIS; NONHUMAN; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CATTLE; CHICKENS; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTERITIS; ENTEROTOXINS; NECROSIS; POULTRY DISEASES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BOVINAE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 77957021010     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2010.04.022     Document Type: Article

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