Diversity of melissococcus plutonius from honeybee larvae in Japan and experimental reproduction of European foulbrood with cultured atypical isolates

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Arai, Rie ^a,b   Tominaga, Kiyoshi ^c   Wu, Meihua ^d   Okura, Masatoshi ^e   Ito, Kazutomo ^f   Okamura, Naomi ^g   Onishi, Hidetaka ^h   Osaki, Makoto ^e,j   Sugimura, Yuya ⁱ   Yoshiyama, Mikio ⁱ   Takamatsu, Daisuke ^b,e  

^a Saitama Prefectural Chuo Livestock Hygiene Service Center   (Japan)

^b GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Yamaguchi Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environment   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^f Gifu Prefectural Gifu Livestock Hygiene Service Center   (Japan)

^g NATIONAL VETERINARY ASSAY LABORATORY   (Japan)

^h Fukushima Prefectural Kenchu Livestock Hygiene Service Center   (Japan)

ⁱ NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LIVESTOCK AND GRASSLAND SCIENCE   (Japan)

^j Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries Research Council   (Japan)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARABINOSE; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; BETA GLUCOSIDASE; CATALASE; CELLOBIOSE; ESCULIN; FRUCTOSE; GELATIN; GLUCOSE; INDOLE; LACTOSE; MANNOSE; NITRATE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PHOSPHATASE; POTASSIUM DIHYDROGEN PHOSPHATE; RNA 16S; SALICIN; SODIUM DIHYDROGEN PHOSPHATE; UREASE; BACTERIAL RNA;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EUROPEAN FOULBROOD; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; IN VITRO STUDY; JAPAN; MELISSOCOCCUS PLUTONIUS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PROTEIN HYDROLYSIS; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; ANIMAL; BEE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENTEROCOCCACEAE; GENETICS; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LARVA; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY;

APIS MELLIFERA; MELISSOCOCCUS PLUTONIUS;

ANIMALS; BEES; ENTEROCOCCACEAE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; JAPAN; LARVA; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 84858693745     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033708     Document Type: Article

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