Abscesses associated with a brucella inopinatalike bacterium in a big-eyed tree frog (Leptopelis vermiculatus)

Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 625-628

  Fischer, Dominik ^a   Lorenz, Nadja ^a,c   Heuser, Wenke ^a   Kämpfer, Peter ^a   Scholz, Holger C ^b   Lierz, Michael ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b BUNDESWEHR INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amphibians; Big eyed tree frog; Brucella inopinata like; Brucellosis; Leptopelis vermiculatus; Ochrobactrum anthropi

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ENROFLOXACIN; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE;

ABSCESS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANURA; ARTICLE; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS; CASE REPORT; CLASSIFICATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY;

ABSCESS; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANURA; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS; FLUOROQUINOLONES;

EID: 84867355174     PISSN: 10427260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1638/2011-0005R2.1     Document Type: Article

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