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Phenotypic and genotypic characterization of Paenibacillus larvae isolates.
Veterinary microbiology - 20 Sept 2007
Antúnez K, Piccini C, Castro-Sowinski S, Rosado A S, Seldin L, Zunino P
Abstract excerpt
Paenibacillus larvae is the causative agent of American Foulbrood (AFB), a severe disease of honeybees (Apis melifera). The aim of this work was to develop a strategy for the subtyping and the epidemiological analysis of P. larvae. Phenotypic characterisation, susceptibility to several antibiotics, electrophoresis of whole bacterial proteins, rep-PCR, ribotyping and DGGE were assessed using a collection of P....
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