Nontoxigenic tox-bearing Corynebacterium ulcerans Infection among Game Animals, Germany

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 448-452

  Eisenberg, Tobias ^a   Kutzer, Peter ^b   Peters, Martin ^b   Sing, Andreas ^c   Contzen, Matthias ^d   Rau, Jörg ^d  

^a Landesbetrieb Hessisches Landeslabor   (Germany)

^b Landeslabor Berlin Brandenburg ^*  (Germany)

^c BAYERISCHES LANDESAMT FÜR GESUNDHEIT UND LEBENSMITTELSICHERHEIT   (Germany)

^d Chemisches und Veterinaruntersuchungsamt Stuttgart   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA TOXIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASES; CLASSIFICATION; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM INFECTION; GENETICS; GERMANY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; VETERINARY; ZOO ANIMAL;

ANIMAL DISEASES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; GERMANY; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84894282525     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2003.130423     Document Type: Article

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