The same clade of Clostridium botulinum strains is causing avian botulism in southern and northern Europe

Anaerobe

Volumn 26, Issue , 2014, Pages 20-23

  Anza, Ibone ^a   Skarin, Hanna ^b,c   Vidal, Dolors ^d   Lindberg, Anna ^b   Båverud, Viveca ^b   Mateo, Rafael ^a  

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

^b NATIONAL VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^d Edificio Polivalente   (Spain)

Author keywords

Avian botulism; Clostridium botulinum; Immunomagnetic separation; PFGE

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN; BOTULINUM TOXIN C; BOTULINUM TOXIN D; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AVIAN BOTULISM; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BONT C GENE; BONT D GENE; BOTULISM; CLADISTICS; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; CLOSTRIDIUM NOVYI SENSU LATO; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOSAICISM; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN EUROPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SCANDINAVIA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; SWEDEN; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

AVIAN BOTULISM; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; PFGE;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; BOTULISM; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; SPAIN; SWEDEN;

EID: 84892847720     PISSN: 10759964     EISSN: 10958274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anaerobe.2014.01.002     Document Type: Article

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