Environmental factors influencing the prevalence of a Clostridium botulinum type C/D mosaic strain in nonpermanent Mediterranean wetlands

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 4264-4271

  Vidal, Dolors ^a,b   Anza, Ibone ^a   Taggart, Mark A ^a,c   Pérez ramírez, Elisa ^a   Crespo, Elena ^d   Hofle, Ursula ^a   Mateo, Rafael ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS   (United Kingdom)

^d Centro de Recuperación de Fauna El Chaparrillo   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC INVERTEBRATES; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; DIGESTIVE TRACT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; MEAN TEMPERATURE; QUANTITATIVE PCR; WETLAND SEDIMENTS;

ANIMALS; LAKES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WETLANDS;

CLOSTRIDIUM;

ADULT; AQUATIC COMMUNITY; BIRD; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MEDITERRANEAN WATER; MORTALITY; REAL TIME; SAMPLING; WETLAND;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIRD; BIRD DISEASE; BOTULISM; CHEMISTRY; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM TYPE C; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM TYPE D; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DUCK; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; INSECT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEASON; SEDIMENT; SPAIN; WEATHER; WETLAND;

ANIMALS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; BOTULISM; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM TYPE C; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM TYPE D; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DUCKS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; INSECTS; PREVALENCE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEASONS; SPAIN; WEATHER; WETLANDS;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SPAIN;

ANAS; AVES; CALLIPHORIDAE; CHIRONOMIDAE; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; CORIXIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; OXYURA; SARCOPHAGIDAE;

EID: 84879825553     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01191-13     Document Type: Article

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