Epidemiology and pathogenicity of zoonotic streptococci

Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 368, Issue , 2013, Pages 49-81

  Fulde, Marcus ^a   Valentin Weigand, Peter ^b  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS CANIS; STREPTOCOCCUS CANIS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI ZOOEPIDEMICUS; STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI ZOOEPIDEMICUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS INIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS INIAE INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS INFECTION; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; REVIEW; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS; VIRULENCE; ZOONOSES;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84892903155     PISSN: 0070217X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/82-2012-277     Document Type: Article

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