Phenotypic and genetic diversity among intestinal spirochaetes (genus Brachyspira) in free-living wild mallards (Anas platyrhynchos) sampled in southern Sweden

Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 566-575

  Jansson, Désirée S ^a,b   Persson, Marianne ^b   Zimmerman, Ulla ^b   Johansson, Karl Erik ^a,b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b NATIONAL VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

16S rRNA gene; Biodiversity; Brachyspira spp.; Intestinal spirochaete; Mallard; NADH oxidase (nox) gene

Indexed keywords

REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE; RNA 16S;

AMPLICON; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; BRACHYSPIRA; BRACHYSPIRA ALVINIPULLI; BRACHYSPIRA HYODYSENTERIAE; BRACHYSPIRA INTERMEDIA; BRACHYSPIRA PILOSICOLI; CHICKEN; COMMENSALISM; ENZYME ANALYSIS; FILTRATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INTESTINE; MALLARD; NONHUMAN; NOX GENE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIROCHETE; SWEDEN; SWINE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VERTEBRATE; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BRACHYSPIRA; BRACHYSPIRA HYODYSENTERIAE; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DUCKS; GENETIC VARIATION; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; INTESTINES; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; NADH, NADPH OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPIROCHAETALES; SWEDEN;

ANAS PLATYRHYNCHOS; AVES; BRACHYSPIRA; BRACHYSPIRA ALVINIPULLI; BRACHYSPIRA HYODYSENTERIAE; BRACHYSPIRA INTERMEDIA; BRACHYSPIRA PILOSICOLI; BRACHYSPIRA PULLI; GALLUS GALLUS; SPIROCHAETA; SPIROCHAETES; SUIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 83155180319     PISSN: 07232020     EISSN: 16180984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.syapm.2011.10.001     Document Type: Article

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