Presence of Bartonella species in wild carnivores of Northern Spain

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 885-888

  Gerrikagoitia, Xeider ^a   Gil, Horacio ^b   García Esteban, Coral ^b   Anda, Pedro ^b   Juste, R A ^a   Barral, Marta ^a  

^a NEIKER and a Vaccine producing Commercial Company CZVSL   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANIS LUPUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BIOTECHNOLOGY;

MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

BACTERIUM; CANID; CARNIVORE; DETECTION METHOD; FELID; HYBRIDIZATION; MUSTELID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BARTONELLA; CARNIVORA; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPAIN; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BARTONELLA; CARNIVORA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPAIN;

SPAIN;

BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; BARTONELLA SP.; CANIS LUPUS; FELIS SILVESTRIS; MELES MELES; TAXIDIINAE; VULPES; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 84856151425     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.05938-11     Document Type: Article

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