Detection of Candidatus Mycoplasma haemobos in cattle with anaemia

Veterinary Journal

Volumn 187, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 408-410

  Hoelzle, Katharina ^a   Winkler, Margit ^b   Kramer, Manuela M ^a   Wittenbrink, Max M ^a   Dieckmann, Sarah M ^a   Hoelzle, Ludwig E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SynLabvet   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anaemia; Candidatus Mycoplasma haemobos; Cattle; Haemotrophic mycoplasma

Indexed keywords

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BLOOD SMEAR; CATTLE; DEPRESSION; EPERYTHROZOONOSIS; EPIDEMIC; GERMANY; HERD; MICROSCOPY; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA WENYONII; MYCOPLASMOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANEMIA; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; GERMANY; MALE; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALIA; BOS; BOVINAE; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA WENYONII; MYCOPLASMATALES;

EID: 79951950120     PISSN: 10900233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tvjl.2010.01.016     Document Type: Article

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