Occurrence of pathogenic Yersinia enterocolitica and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis in small wild rodents

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 139, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1230-1238

  Backhans, A ^a   Fellstrom C ^a   Lambertz, S Thisted ^b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b NATIONAL FOOD ADMINISTRATION   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; transmission; Yersinia enterocolitica; Yersinia pseudotuberculosis; zoonotic foodborne diseases

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHICKEN FARMING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PIG FARMING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; RODENT; SEROTYPE; SWEDEN; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; RODENT DISEASE; YERSINIA INFECTION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; RODENT DISEASES; RODENTIA; SWEDEN; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIA INFECTIONS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 80052167453     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268810002463     Document Type: Article

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