Comparison of Fusobacterium necrophorum isolates from liver abscesses, ruminal walls, and ruminal contents of feedlot cattle
Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station contribution; no. 97-309-S; Report of progress (Kansas State University. Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service); 804; Cattlemen's Day, 1998; Beef; Fustobacterium necrophorum; Liver abscesses; Feedlot
DNA finger printing (restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis) was employed to genetically compare Fusobacterium necrophorum isolates of liver abscesses, ruminal wall, and ruminal contents from the same animal. Fusobacterium necrophorum isolates from liver abscesses were genetically identical to the corresponding isolates from the ruminal wall in eight of nine animals tested. This genetic similarity between the isolates supports the hypothesis that F. necrophorum in liver abscesses originates from the ruminal wall.
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Narayanan, Sanjeev K.; Okwumabua, O.; Staats, J.; Oberst, Richard D.; Nagaraja, Tiruvoor G.; and Chengappa, M. M.
"Comparison of Fusobacterium necrophorum isolates from liver abscesses, ruminal walls, and ruminal contents of feedlot cattle,"
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