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Molecular epidemiology of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia in Tanzania based on amplified fragment length polymorphism and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis analysis.
Journal of veterinary medicine. B, Infectious diseases and veterinary public health - 1 May 2001
Kusiluka L J, Ojeniyi B, Friis N F, Kokotovic B, Ahrens P
Abstract excerpt
The genetic diversity of 60 field strains of Mycoplasma mycoides ssp. mycoides, small colony type (M. mycoides SC), comprising 56 isolates from cattle in Tanzania, one from Kenya, two from Botswana and one from Portugal, as well as the type (PG1T) and vaccine (T1-SR49) strains, was investigated. The strains were analyzed for variations in the EcoRI and Csp6I restriction sites in the genomic DNA using the...
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