A novel Chlamydiaceae-like bacterium found in faecal specimens from sea birds from the Bering Sea

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 605-610

  Christerson, Linus ^a   Blomqvist, Maria ^a   Grannas, Karin ^a   Thollesson, Mikael ^a   Laroucau, Karine ^b   Waldenström, Jonas ^c   Eliasson, Ingvar ^d   Olsen, Björn ^c,e   Herrmann, Björn ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Healthy Pigs Production and Experimentation Section   (France)

^c LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d Norra Alvsborg County Hospital Uddevalla   (Sweden)

^e UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCIDAE; AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIACEAE; CHLAMYDIALES; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI; LARIDAE;

EID: 78649724766     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2010.00174.x     Document Type: Article

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