Molecular epidemiology of Streptococcus agalactiae isolated from mastitis in Brazilian dairy herds

Abstract 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...

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Main Authors: Glei A. Carvalho-Castro, Juliana R. Silva, Luciano V. Paiva, Dircéia A.C. Custódio, Rafael O. Moreira, Glaucia F. Mian, Ingrid A. Prado, Antônio Chalfun-Junior, Geraldo M. Costa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Microbiologia
Series:Brazilian Journal of Microbiology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822017000300551&lng=en&tlng=en