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PROF GLENN BROWNING



Contact Details

Organization: Veterinary Science
Position: PROFESSOR, FACULTY OF VETERINARY SCIENCE
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Work: 0383447342
Fax: 0383447374
Room: 301
Level: 03
Building: Vet Preclinical Centre
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Veterinary Virology Rotavirus, Herpesvirus, Circovirus, Coronavirus, Calicivirus Australia, United Kingdom
Veterinary Bacteriology Rhodococcus, Escherichia coli, Salmonella, Mycoplasma, Australia, Germany

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
Germany Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg Exchange, Research
France Universite Toulouse Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Veterinary Science University of Sydney 31-Dec-1983
Diploma of Veterinary Clinical Studies University of Sydney 31-Dec-1984
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1988

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Australian Veterinary Association Member 01-Nov-1983
Member Society for General Microbiology Member 01-Jan-1996
Member Australian Society for Microbiology Member 01-Jan-2006
Member American Society for Microbiology Member 01-Jan-1999
Member International Organisation for Mycoplasmology Member 01-Jul-1994

Fellowships

Fellowship Date Awarded
Member of the Australian Society for Microbiology (MASM) 08-Mar-2005

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Other (Award) Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Humboldt Research Fellowship 01-Jan-1998
Other (Award) Australian Veterinary Association Meritorious Service Award 01-May-1997

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Development of an attenuated infectious laryngotracheitis virus vaccine Chief Investigator BIOPROPERTIES AUST PTY LTD,
AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL		 Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2003
Avian leukosis subgroup-J (ALV-J): Epidemiological studies for eradication of ALV-J from Australian broiler breeder flocks 2003-5 Chief Investigator RURAL INDUSTRIES R & D CORPORATION Project Grants 01/07/2003
Management strategies for reducing risk of rhodococcal pneumonia on studs Chief Investigator RURAL INDUSTRIES R & D CORPORATION Project Grants 01/08/2003
Development and assessment of chimaeric feline caliciviruses as vaccines Chief Investigator CSL LIMITED,
AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL		 Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2004
Equine infectious respiratory disease after long distance confined transportation Chief Investigator IRISH EQUINE CENTRE,
AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL		 Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2004
DETECTING THE PRESENCE OF STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE IN BULK VAT MILK USING ROUTINELY COLLECTED MILK SAMPLES Chief Investigator DAIRY AUSTRALIA Project Grants 01/06/2004
Using transgenic plant-based production and delivery systems to develop an avian influenza vaccine Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL,
DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC		 Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2006
Blocking immune responses: a critical factor in herpesvirus virulence? Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2006
Structural and functional investigations into a novel chemokine binding protein encoded by evolutionarily diverse alphaherpesviruses Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2009
Development of an attenuated vaccine to control the emerging bovine respiratory pathogen Mycoplasma bovis Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Projects 01/01/2009
Investigations into a novel recombinant vaccine to control infectious laryngotracheitis Chief Investigator AUST POULTRY CRC R & D Proposal 04/05/2009
Improving control of infectious laryngotracheitis virus in Australian broiler flocks. Chief Investigator RURAL INDUSTRIES R & D CORPORATION Project Grants 22/05/2009
DEVELOPING NOVEL ANTIGEN DELIVERY SYSTEMS; ILTV AS A VACCINE VECTOR Chief Investigator AUST POULTRY CRC R & D Proposal 17/08/2009

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
AP CRC PROJECT 03-09 :GENOMIC APPROACHES TO DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL VACCINES Chief Investigator AUST POULTRY CRC 01/07/2003
AP CRC PROJECT 03-12 :TOWARDS RAPID REGISTRATION OF A LIVE ATTENUATED PASTEURELLA MULTICODA VACCINE Chief Investigator BIOPROPERTIES AUST PTY LTD,
AUST POULTRY CRC		 01/01/2004
Australian Poultry CRC 03-08: Assessment of Chicken anaemia Virus mutants as Vaccine Strains Chief Investigator AUST POULTRY CRC 14/05/2004
ISOLATION OF A BOVINE ROTAVIRUS STRAIN SUITABLE FOR VACCINE DEVELOPMENT Chief Investigator INTERVET AUSTRALIA PTY LTD 01/05/2007

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

  • Detection of virulent Rhodococcus equi in exhaled air samples from naturally infected foals
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Journal of Clinical Microbiology
    Volume: March
    Page numbers: 734-737
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  • The conserved portion of the putative virulence region contributes to virulence of avian pathogenic Escherichia coli
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Microbiology
    Volume: 155
    Page numbers: 450-460
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Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • Comparison of the safety and protective efficacy of vaccination with glycoprotein-G-deficient infectious laryngotracheitis virus delivered via eye-drop, drinking water or aerosol
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Avian Pathology
    Volume: 37
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 83-88
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  • Development and immunogenicity of recombinant Mycoplasma gallisepticum vaccine strain ts-11 expressing chicken IFN-y
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Vaccine
    Volume: 26
    Page numbers: 5449-5454
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  • Development of a replicable oriC plasmid for Mycoplasma gallisepticum and Mycoplasma imitans, and gene disruption through homologous recombination in M. gallisepticum
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Microbiology
    Volume: 154
    Page numbers: 2571-2580
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  • Differential expression of lipoprotein genes in Mycoplasma pneumoniae after contact with human lung epithelial cells, and under oxidative and acidic stress
    Year: 2008
    Journal: BMC Microbiology
    Volume: 8
    Page numbers: 124
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  • Evaluation of chicken anaemia virus mutants as potential vaccine strains in 1-day-old chickens
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Avian Pathology
    Volume: 37
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 109-114
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  • Infectious bronchitis viruses with a novel genomic organization
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Virology
    Volume: 82
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 2013-2024
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae mhp379 is a Ca2+- dependent, sugar-nonspecific exonuclease exposed on the cell surface
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Bacteriology
    Volume: 189
    Issue: 9
    Page numbers: 3414-3424
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  • Attenuation of chicken anemia virus by site-directed mutagenesis of VP2
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of General Virology
    Volume: 88
    Page numbers: 2168-2175
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  • Comparison of two selective media for the recovery, isolation, enumeration and differentiation of Rhodococcus equi
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Veterinary Microbiology
    Volume: 119
    Page numbers: 324-329
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  • Glycoprotein G deficient infectious laryngotracheitis virus is a candidate attenuated vaccine
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Vaccine
    Volume: 25
    Page numbers: 3561-3566
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  • IFN-y enhances immune responses to E coli infection in the chicken
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Interferon and Cytokine Research
    Volume: 27
    Page numbers: 937-946
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Organization of the Mycoplasma synoviae WVU 1853T vlhA gene locus


    Year: 2006
    Journal: Avian Pathology
    Volume: 35
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 53-57
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  • A glycoprotein I- and glycoprotein E-deficient mutant of infectious laryngotracheitis virus exhibits impaired cell-to-cell spread in cultured cells
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Archives of Virology
    Volume: 151
    Page numbers: 1281-1289
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  • A model for cystic endometrial hyperplasia/pyometra complex in the bitch
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Theriogenology
    Volume: 66
    Page numbers: 1530-1536
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  • Age related differences in the immune response to vaccination and infection with Mycoplasma gallisepticum
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Vaccine
    Volume: 24
    Page numbers: 1687-1692
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  • Associations between the ecology of virulent Rhodococcus equi and the epidemiology of R. equi pneumonia on Australian Thoroughbred farms
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Applied and Environmental Microbiology
    Volume: 72
    Issue: 9
    Page numbers: 6152-6160
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  • Clinical evaluation of a peptide-ELISA based upon N-terminal B-cell epitope of the VapA protein for diagnosis of Rhodococcus equi pneumonia in foals
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Veterinary Medicine Series B - Infectious Diseases and Veterinary Public Health
    Volume: 53
    Page numbers: 126-132
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  • Comparison of concentrations of Rhodococcus equi and virulent R. equi in air of stables and paddocks on horse breeding farms in a temperate climate
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Equine Veterinary Journal
    Volume: 38
    Page numbers: 263-265
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  • Glycoprotein G is a virulence factor in infectious laryngotracheitis virus
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of General Virology
    Volume: 87
    Page numbers: 2839-2847
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  • IL-18 expression in pigs following infection with Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Interferon and Cytokine Research
    Volume: 26
    Page numbers: 637-644
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  • Lipoprotein multigene families in Mycoplasma pneumoniae
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Bacteriology
    Volume: 188
    Issue: 15
    Page numbers: 5393-5399
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  • Rapid differentiation of current infectious bronchitis virus vaccine strains and field isolates in Australia
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Australian Veterinary Journal
    Volume: 84
    Issue: 1&2
    Page numbers: 59-62
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  • Site-directed mutagenesis of the VP2 gene of Chicken anemia virus affects virus replication, cytopathology and host-cell MHC class 1 expression
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of General Virology
    Volume: 87
    Page numbers: 823-831
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  • The cellular immune response in the tracheal mucosa to Mycoplasma gallisepticum in vaccinated and unvaccinated chickens in the acute and chronic stages of disease
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Vaccine
    Volume: 24
    Page numbers: 2627-2633
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  • Typing infectious bronchitis virus strains using reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction and restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis to compare the 3' 7.5 kb of their genomes
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Avian Pathology
    Volume: 35
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 63-69
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  • Viral load in 1-day-old and 6-week-old chickens infected with chicken anaemia virus by the intraocular route
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Avian Pathology
    Volume: 35
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 471-474
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Publications in 2005

Book Chapters

  • Phenotypic Diversity and Cell Invasion in Host Subversion by Pathogenic Mycoplasmas
    Year: 2005
    Book: Mycoplasmas Molecular Biology Pathogenicity and Strategies for Control
    Publisher: Horizon Bioscience(Norwich)
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  • Vaccines to Control Mycoplasmosis
    Year: 2005
    Book: Mycoplasmas Molecular Biology Pathogenicity and Strategies for Control
    Publisher: Horizon Bioscience(Norwich)
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Journal Articles

  • Mutation of chicken anemia virus VP2 differentially affects serine/threonine and tyrosine protein phosphatase activities
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of General Virology
    Volume: 86
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 623-630
    Publisher: Society for General Microbiology(Reading)
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  • The vlhA loci of Mycoplasma synoviae are confined to a restricted region of the genome
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Microbiology
    Volume: 151
    Page numbers: 935-940
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Publications in 2004

Book Chapters

  • Mycoplasma
    Year: 2004
    Book: Pathogenesis of bacterial infections in animals
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Asia(Carlton South)
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Journal Articles

  • Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae p65 surface lipoprotein is a lipolytic enzyme with a preference for shorter-chain fatty acids
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Bacteriology
    Volume: 186
    Issue: 17
    Page numbers: 5790-5798
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  • Association of iss and iucA, but not tsh, with plasmid-mediated virulence of avian pathogenic Escherichia coli
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Infection and Immunity
    Volume: 72
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 6554-6560
    Publisher: American Society for Microbiology(Washington DC)
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  • Identification and differentiation of avirulent and virulent Rhodococcus equi using selective media and colony blotting DNA hybridization to determine their concentrations in the environment
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Veterinary Microbiology
    Volume: 100
    Page numbers: 121-127
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  • Is Chlamydophila felis a significant zoonotic pathogen?
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australian Veterinary Journal
    Volume: 82
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 695-696
    Publisher: Australian Veterinary Association(Brunswick)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Using biotechnology to control animal diseases
    Year: 2004
    Event name: 11th International Conference of the Association of Institutions for Tropical Veterinary Medicine and 16th Veterinary Association Malaysia Congress
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of The Association of Institutions for Tropical Veterinary Medicine
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 31-32
    Publisher: Universiti Putra Malaysia Press(Selangor)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Embryonic age influences the capacity for cytokine induction in chicken thymocytes
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Immunology
    Volume: 110
    Page numbers: 358-367
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  • Homologue of macrophage-activating lipoprotein in Mycoplasma gallisepticum is not essential for growth and pathogenicity in tracheal organ cultures
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Bacteriology
    Volume: 185
    Issue: 8
    Page numbers: 2538-2547
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  • It takes more than metadata and stories of success: Understanding barriers to reuse of computer facilitated learning resources
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Australian Journal of Educational Technology
    Volume: 19
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 72-86
    Publisher: Australian Society for Educational Technology
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  • Multiplex polymerase chain reaction as a mastitis screening test for Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus agalactiae, Streptococcus dysgalactiae and Streptococcus uberis in bulk milk samples
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Dairy Research
    Volume: 70
    Page numbers: 149-155
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(New York)
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  • The complete genome sequence of the avian pathogen Mycoplasma gallisepticum strain >Rlow
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Microbiology
    Volume: 149
    Page numbers: 2307-2316
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  • Uropathogenic virulence factors in isolates of Escherichia coil from clinical cases of canine pyometra and feces of healthy bitches
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Veterinary Microbiology
    Volume: 94
    Page numbers: 57-69
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  • Variation between Pathogenic Serovars within Salmonella Pathogenicity Islands
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Bacteriology
    Volume: 185
    Issue: 12
    Page numbers: 3624-3635
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Publications in 2002

Book Chapters

  • Genetic Mechanisms of Surface Variation
    Year: 2002
    Book: Molecular Biology and Pathogenicity of Mycoplasmas
    Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers(New York)
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Journal Articles

  • Chicken Anemia Virus VP2 Is a Novel Dual Specificity Protein Phosphatase*
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Biological Chemistry
    Volume: 277
    Issue: No. 42 Issue of October 18
    Page numbers: 39566-39573
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  • Detection of Antibodies to Mycoplasma gallisepticum Vaccine ts-11 by an Autologous pMGA Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Avian Diseases
    Volume: 46
    Page numbers: 405-411
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  • Improved detection of antibodies to Mycoplasma synoviae vaccine MS-H using an autologous recombinant MSPB enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Avian Pathology
    Volume: 31
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 611-617
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  • Induction of enzootic pneumonia in pigs by the administration of an aerosol of in vitro-cultured Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Veterinary Record
    Volume: 150
    Page numbers: 9-11
    Publisher: British Veterinary Association(London)
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Detection of feline calicivirus, feline herpesvirus 1 and Chlamydia psittaci mucosal swabs by multiplex RT-PCR/PCR
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Veterinary Microbiology
    Volume: 81
    Page numbers: 95-108
    Publisher: Elsevier Science
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  • Epidemiology of Rhodococcus equi Strains on Thoroughbred Horse Farms
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Applied and Environmental Microbiology
    Volume: May
    Issue: n/a
    Page numbers: 2167-2175
    Publisher: American Society for Microbiology(Washington DC)
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  • Genotyping Cryptosporidium parvum by single-strand conformation polymorphism analysis of ribosomal and heat shock gene regions
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Electrophoresis
    Volume: 22
    Page numbers: 433-437
    Publisher: Wiley-VCH(Berlin)
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  • Molecular Epidemiology of Streptococcus uberis Isolates from Dairy Cows with Mastitis
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Clinical Microbiology
    Volume: 39
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 1460-1466
    Publisher: American Society for Microbiology(Washington DC)
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  • Molecular epidemiology of Salmonella Heidelberg in an equine hospital
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Veterinary Microbiology
    Volume: 80
    Page numbers: 85-98
    Publisher: Elsevier Science
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  • Multiplex Polymerase Chain Reaction Assay for Simultaneous Detection of Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcal Causes of Bovine Mastitis
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Dairy Science
    Volume: 84
    Page numbers: 1140-1148
    Publisher: American Dairy Science Association(Illinois)
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  • Rapid PCR detection of Salmonella in horse faecal samples
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Veterinary Microbiology
    Volume: 79
    Page numbers: 63-74
    Publisher: Elsevier Science
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