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Characterization of Enterococcus faecalis isolates by chicken embryo lethality assay and ERIC-PCR.
Avian pathology : journal of the W.V.P.A - 1 Feb 2018
Blanco Ana E, Barz Martin, Cavero David, Icken Wiebke, Sharifi A Reza, Voss Matthias, Buxadé Carlos, Preisinger Rudolf
Abstract excerpt
Enterococcus faecalis is the major causative agent of amyloid arthropathy in chickens. Given the difficulty of estimating the risk from field strains, the embryo lethality assay (ELA) is proposed in this study as a model to predict the virulence of 68 avian E. faecalis strains. Additionally, Enterobacterial Repetitive Intergenic Consensus Polymerase Chain Reaction (ERIC-PCR) was used to characterize the genetic...
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