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Genetic diversity and antimicrobial susceptibility of Campylobacter jejuni isolates associated with sheep abortion in the United States and Great Britain.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Jun 2014
Wu Zuowei, Sippy Rachel, Sahin Orhan, Plummer Paul, Vidal Ana, Newell Diane, Zhang Qijing
Abstract excerpt
Campylobacter infection is a leading cause of ovine abortion worldwide. Historically, genetically diverse Campylobacter fetus and Campylobacter jejuni strains have been implicated in such infections, but since 2003 a highly pathogenic, tetracycline-resistant C. jejuni clone (named SA) has become the predominant cause of sheep abortions in the United States. Whether clone SA was present in earlier U.S. abortion...
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