Molecular and serological investigation of Leptospira and leptospirosis in dogs in Japan

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue PART4, 2013, Pages 630-636

  Koizumi, Nobuo ^a   Muto, Maki Mizutani ^a   Akachi, Shigehiro ^b   Okano, Shou ^c   Yamamoto, Seigo ^d   Horikawa, Kazumi ^e   Harada, Seiya ^f   Funatsumaru, Sadayuki ^g   Ohnishi, Makoto ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b Mie Prefectural Health and Environment Research Institute   (Japan)

^c OKINAWA PREFECTURAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT   (Japan)

^d Miyazaki Prefectural Institute for Public Health and Environment   (Japan)

^e FUKUOKA INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^f Kumamoto Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environmental Science   (Japan)

^g Saga Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Pharmaceutical Research   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; FEMALE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENOTYPE; JAPAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEROTYPE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; JAPAN; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84875164493     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.050039-0     Document Type: Article

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