Feral swine brucellosis in the United States and prospective genomic techniques for disease epidemiology

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 166, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 1-10

  Leiser, Owen P ^a   Corn, Joseph L ^b   Schmit, Brandon S ^c   Keim, Paul S ^a   Foster, Jeffrey T ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brucellosis; Epidemiology; Feral swine; Genomics; Next generation sequencing

Indexed keywords

OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RNA 16S;

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; AUSTRALIA; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BELGIUM; BIOTYPE; BRUCELLA SUIS; BRUCELLOSIS; CROATIA; CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; CZECH REPUBLIC; DISEASE CONTROL; DNA REPLICATION; DOMESTIC PIG; EPIZOOTIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUROPE; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FETUS DEATH; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GERMANY; GOLD STANDARD; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; ITALY; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LABORATORY PERSONNEL; LEPUS EUROPAEUS; LIVESTOCK; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MUCOSA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPTIC ABORTION; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPAIN; SWITZERLAND; TARGET ORGANISM; UNITED STATES; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WILD ANIMAL; WILD BOAR; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIA PESTIS;

BRUCELLOSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FERAL SWINE; GENOMICS; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING;

ANIMALS; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS; GENOMICS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRUCELLA; SUIDAE;

EID: 84880513671     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: 18732542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2013.02.025     Document Type: Review

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