| leptospiral antibodies in iberian red deer (cervus elaphus hispanicus), fallow deer (dama dama) and european wild boar (sus scrofa) in asturias, northern spain. | serum samples collected from iberian red deer (cervus elaphus hispanicus; n=472), fallow deer (dama dama; n=293) and european wild boar (sus scrofa; n=174) in asturias, northern spain, from 1999 to 2005 were examined for antibodies against a reference panel of 14 leptospira spp. serovars. positive antibody titres at a microscopic agglutination test cut-off of 1:80 were detected against serovars pomona (1.6%, 5.8%, 5.2%), bratislava (1.1%, 0.7%, 4.7%), grippotyphosa (0.7%, 2.4%, 1.7%), muenchen ( ... | 2010 | 19019711 |
| a three-way ribotyping scheme for salmonella serotype typhimurium and its usefulness for phylogenetic and epidemiological purposes. | ribotyping of salmonella serotype typhimurium strains was optimised as a tool for epidemiological and phylogenetic purposes. of five restriction endonucleases evaluated on a series of 84 isolates, hincii, sali and pvuii were the most useful, generating 13, 9 and 9 ribotypes with 17, 11 and 18 polymorphic restriction sites, and attaining a discrimination index (di) of 0.81, 0.53 and 0.59, respectively. the combination of results from tests with the three enzymes provided further discrimination (1 ... | 1997 | 9128194 |