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Characterization of a Moraxella species that causes epistaxis in macaques.
Veterinary microbiology - 27 Jan 2011
Embers Monica E, Doyle Lara A, Whitehouse Chris A, Selby Edward B, Chappell Mark, Philipp Mario T
Abstract excerpt
Bacteria of the genus Moraxella have been isolated from a variety of mammalian hosts. In a prior survey of bacteria that colonize the rhesus macaque nasopharynx, performed at the Tulane National Primate Research Center, organisms of the Moraxella genus were isolated from animals with epistaxis, or "bloody nose syndrome." They were biochemically identified as Moraxella catarrhalis, and cryopreserved. Another...
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