Article
Molecular epidemiology of Streptococcus agalactiae isolated from mastitis in Brazilian dairy herds.
Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] - 1 Jan 2000
Carvalho-Castro Glei A, Silva Juliana R, Paiva Luciano V, Custódio Dircéia A C, Moreira Rafael O, Mian Glaucia F, Prado Ingrid A, Chalfun-Junior Antônio, Costa Geraldo M
Abstract excerpt
Streptococcus agalactiae is one of the most common pathogens leading to mastitis in dairy herds worldwide; consequently, the pathogen causes major economic losses for affected farmers. In this study, multilocus sequence typing (MLST), genotypic capsular typing by multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and virulence gene detection were performed to address the molecular epidemiology of 59 bovine (mastitis) S....
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