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Evidence of circulation of an epidemic strain of Pasteurella multocida in Jiangsu, China by multi-locus sequence typing (MLST).
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Dec 2013
Wang Yanhong, Zhu Jie, Lu Chengping, Wu Bai, Liu Dandan, Hang Wei, Liu Huimou, Liu Xiufan
Abstract excerpt
Pasteurella multocida, the causative agent of fowl cholera, is a serious threat to poultry farming. In this study, we isolated and identified 40 P. multocida strains in fowl cholera outbreaks in Jiangsu province, China. The identified P. multocida was further characterized using multi-locus sequence typing (MLST). All of the 40 P. multocida strains studied are genetically identical and belong to the ST129...
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