Edwardsiella tarda sepsis in a live-stranded sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus)

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 166, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 311-315

  Cools, Piet ^a   Haelters, Jan ^c   Lopes dos Santos Santiago, Guido ^a   Claeys, Geert ^b   Boelens, Jerina ^b   Leroux Roels, Isabel ^b   Vaneechoutte, Mario ^a   Deschaght, Pieter ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^c ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Edwardsiella tarda; Emerging pathogen; Sepsis; Sperm whale; Stranding; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD; EDWARDSIELLA TARDA; GENE SEQUENCE; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEPSIS; SPERM WHALE;

EDWARDSIELLA TARDA; EMERGING PATHOGEN; SEPSIS; SPERM WHALE; STRANDING; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; EDWARDSIELLA TARDA; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; MALE; SEPSIS; SPERM WHALE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CETACEA; EDWARDSIELLA TARDA; PHYSETER CATODON; PHYSETERIDAE;

EID: 84880510839     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: 18732542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2013.05.020     Document Type: Article

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