Isolation and identification of Mycobacterium avium subspecies silvaticum from a horse

Comparative Immunology, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 303-307

  Chiers, Koen ^a   Deschaght, Pieter ^b   De Baere, Thierry ^b,c   Dabrowski, Slawomir ^d   Kotlowski, Roman ^d   De Clercq, Dominique ^a   Ducatelle, Richard ^a   Vaneechoutte, Mario ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c Nationaal Instituut voor Criminalistiek en Criminologie   (Belgium)

^d GDANSK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Horse; Mycobacterium avium subspecies silvaticum; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CORTISONE;

85B ANTIGEN GENE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; FECES ANALYSIS; GELDING; GENE SEQUENCE; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HISTOLOGY; HORSE; HYPOPROTEINEMIA; INTESTINE PARASITE; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM SILVATICUM; NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION DIGESTION; SALMONELLA; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DNA RESTRICTION ENZYMES; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; TUBERCULOSIS;

EQUIDAE; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS COMPLEX;

EID: 84861756047     PISSN: 01479571     EISSN: 18781667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cimid.2012.01.011     Document Type: Article

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