Article
Certain canine weakly beta-hemolytic intestinal spirochetes are phenotypically and genotypically related to spirochetes associated with human and porcine intestinal spirochetosis.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Aug 1995
Duhamel G E, Muniappa N, Mathiesen M R, Johnson J L, Toth J, Elder R O, Doster A R
Abstract excerpt
Four canine weakly beta-hemolytic intestinal spirochetes associated with intestinal spirochetosis (IS-associated WBHIS) were compared with IS-associated human and porcine WBHIS and the type species for Serpulina hyodysenteriae and S. innocens by using phenotypic and genotypic parameters. The IS-a...
Topics
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Brachyspira
- DNA Primers
- DNA, Bacterial
- Dog Diseases
- Dogs
- Genotype
- Humans
- Intestinal Diseases
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phenotype
- Spirochaetales
- Spirochaetales Infections