Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis supports the presence of host-adapted Salmonella enterica subsp. Enterica serovar typhimurium strains in the British garden bird population

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 8139-8144

  Lawson, Becki ^a,b   Hughes, Laura A ^b   Peters, Tansy ^c   de Pinna, Elizabeth ^c   John, Shinto K ^a   Macgregor, Shaheed K ^a   Cunningham, Andrew A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD POPULATIONS; BIRD SPECIES; DOMESTIC ANIMALS; ENGLAND; GENETIC SIMILARITIES; GREAT BRITAIN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MOLECULAR TECHNIQUES; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHAGE TYPING; POSTMORTEM EXAMINATION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; S. TYPHIMURIUM; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEROVAR; WILD BIRDS;

BIRDS; DISEASES; GELS; SALMONELLA; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ELECTROPHORESIS;

ADAPTATION; BACTERIUM; BIOTYPE; ELECTROKINESIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; PASSERINE; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL SALMONELLOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIRD; BIRD DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENGLAND; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; WALES;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 83055180096     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00131-11     Document Type: Article

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