Free-Living Turtles Are a Reservoir for Salmonella but Not for Campylobacter

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Marin, Clara ^a   Ingresa Capaccioni, Sofia ^a   González Bodi, Sara ^a   Marco Jiménez, Francisco ^b   Vega, Santiago ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CEU CARDENAL HERRERA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CAMPYLOBACTER; CLOACA; EMYS ORBICULARIS; EXOTIC SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; NONHUMAN; POND; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA THOMPSON; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEROTYPE; SUBSPECIES; TRACHEMYS SCRIPTA ELEGANS; TURTLE;

ANIMALS; CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER INFECTIONS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEROTYPING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TURTLES; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84881349767     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072350     Document Type: Article

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