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Genotypic variation among arcobacter isolates from a farrow-to-finish swine facility.
Journal of food protection - 1 May 2001
Hume M E, Harvey R B, Stanker L H, Droleskey R E, Poole T L, Zhang H B
Abstract excerpt
Arcobacter spp. were isolated from nursing sows and developing pigs on three farms of a farrow-to-finish swine operation and market-age pigs at slaughter. Isolates were identified by polymerase chain reaction and genotypic fragment patterns were examined by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). Incidences of Arcobacter-positive samples increased progressively as the pigs aged, resulting in all of the pens at...
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