Species-specificity of equine and porcine Lawsonia intracellularis isolates in laboratory animals

Canadian Journal of Veterinary Research

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 261-272

  Sampieri, Francesca ^a   Vannucci, Fabio A ^c   Allen, Andrew L ^b   Pusterla, Nicola ^d   Antonopoulos, Aphroditi J ^a   Ball, Katherine R ^a   Thompson, Julie ^e   Dowling, Patricia M ^a   Hamilton, Don L ^a   Gebhart, Connie J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e CANADIAN LIGHT SOURCE INC   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESULFOVIBRIONACEAE INFECTION; ENTEROPATHY; FEMALE; HORSE; HOST RANGE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LAWSONIA; NONHUMAN; PATHOLOGY; RABBIT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SWINE; SYRIAN HAMSTER;

ANIMALS; CRICETINAE; DESULFOVIBRIONACEAE INFECTIONS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; FECES; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINAL DISEASES; LAWSONIA BACTERIA; MESOCRICETUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RABBITS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

EID: 84885720714     PISSN: 08309000     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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