Revisiting bovine pyometra-New insights into the disease using a culture-independent deep sequencing approach

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 175, Issue 2-4, 2015, Pages 319-324

  Knudsen, Lif Rødtness Vesterby ^a   Karstrup, Cecilia Christensen ^b   Pedersen, Hanne Gervi ^b   Agerholm, Jørgen Steen ^b   Jensen, Tim Kåre ^a   Klitgaard, Kirstine ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bovine pyometra; Cattle; Metagenomics; Microbiota

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ACTINOMYCETACEAE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTEROIDACEAE; BOVINE PYOMETRA; CATTLE DISEASE; CLOSTRIDIALES; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; FEMALE; FUSOBACTERIACEAE; FUSOBACTERIUM NECROPHORUM; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROFLORA; MYCOPLASMATACEAE; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; PASTEURELLACEAE; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORPHYROMONADACEAE; PYOMETRA; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; SPECIES COMPOSITION; TAXONOMY; TRUEPERELLA PYOGENES; UTERUS; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM; BOVINE; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROCEDURES; VETERINARY;

ACTINOMYCETACEAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS; BOVINAE; FUSOBACTERIACEAE; FUSOBACTERIUM NECROPHORUM; MYCOPLASMATACEAE; NEGIBACTERIA; PASTEURELLACEAE; PORPHYROMONADACEAE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; FEMALE; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; PYOMETRA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 84922752750     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: 18732542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2014.12.006     Document Type: Article

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