Abstract
Chronic idiopathic colitis is a common clinical entity in young captive rhesus monkeys. Eight isolates, cultured from five monkeys in colony 1 with endemic diarrhea and three from colony 2 without diarrhea, were grown under microaerobic conditions on selective agar and were classified by full 16S rRNA sequence, biochemical, and phenotypic analysis as a novel helicobacter, "Helicobacter macacae" (proposed name). All eight strains of H. macacae had 99.5% identical 16S rRNA sequences.
Publication types
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Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
MeSH terms
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Animals
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Bacterial Typing Techniques
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Colitis / epidemiology
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Colitis / microbiology
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Colitis / veterinary*
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DNA, Bacterial / chemistry
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DNA, Bacterial / genetics
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DNA, Ribosomal / chemistry
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DNA, Ribosomal / genetics
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Diarrhea / epidemiology
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Diarrhea / microbiology
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Endemic Diseases
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Genes, rRNA
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Helicobacter / classification*
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Helicobacter / genetics
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Helicobacter / isolation & purification*
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Helicobacter / physiology
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Macaca mulatta / microbiology*
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Phylogeny
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RNA, Bacterial / genetics
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RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / genetics
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Sequence Analysis, DNA
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Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
Substances
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DNA, Bacterial
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DNA, Ribosomal
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RNA, Bacterial
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RNA, Ribosomal, 16S