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Characterization of colonization-deficient mutants of Actinobacillus suis.
Veterinary microbiology - 6 Jan 2010
Ojha S, Lacouture S, Gottschalk M, MacInnes J I
Abstract excerpt
Actinobacillus suis is an important opportunistic pathogen of swine that can cause disease in pigs of all ages, especially in high-health status herds. Although A. suis shares many virulence factors in common with Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae and can cause a haemorrhagic pleuropneumonia similar to that caused by A. pleuropneumoniae, A. suis most often causes septicaemia and diseases such as arthritis and...
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