Diversity and Succession of Bacterial Communities in the Uterine Fluid of Postpartum Metritic, Endometritic and Healthy Dairy Cows

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Santos, Thiago M A ^a   Bicalho, Rodrigo C ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTEROIDETES; COMMUNITY SUCCESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAIRY CATTLE; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ENDOMETRITIS; FEMALE; FIRMICUTES; FUSOBACTERIA; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HEALTH STATUS; METRITIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLLICUTES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PROTEOBACTERIA; PUERPERIUM; PYROSEQUENCING; RNA SEQUENCE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPIROCHETE; SYNERGISTETES; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; UTERUS FLUID;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; ENDOMETRITIS; FEMALE; METAGENOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; UTERUS;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; FIRMICUTES; FUSOBACTERIA; MOLLICUTES; PROTEOBACTERIA; SPIROCHAETES;

EID: 84871653894     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053048     Document Type: Article

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