Temporal variation and host association in the Campylobacter population in a longitudinal ruminant farm study

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 6579-6586

  Sproston, Emma L ^a   Ogden, Iain D ^a   MacRae, Marion ^a   Dallas, John F ^a   Sheppard, Samuel K ^b   Cody, Alison J ^b   Colles, Frances M ^b   Wilson, Michael J ^c   Forbes, Ken J ^a   Strachan, Norval J C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c RUAKURA RESEARCH CENTRE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CAMPYLOBACTER SPECIES; CAMPYLOBACTERS; FECAL SAMPLES; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; TEMPORAL DIFFERENCES; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

FARMS;

WOOL;

BACTERIAL DISEASE; BACTERIUM; CATTLE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FARM; FECAL PELLET; LONGITUDINAL GRADIENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SEASONALITY; SHEEP; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIAL SHEDDING; CAMPYLOBACTER COLI; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CATTLE; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; FECES; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; SHEEP;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIAL SHEDDING; CAMPYLOBACTER COLI; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CATTLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FECES; GENOTYPE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; SHEEP;

BOS; CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER COLI; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 80052808753     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00428-11     Document Type: Article

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