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Epidemiological typing of bovine streptococci by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis
1 Oct 1999
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Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) was used to investigate the epidemiology of streptococcal mastitis in dairy cattle. The most prevalent streptococcal species, Streptococcus uberis (60-80% of streptococcal isolates), was highly heterogeneous, with different cows only rarely sharing the same pulsotype. S. agalactiae was rarely encountered, however all eight isolates from one farm generated identical PFGE...
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