Corpus ID: 86069069

Gap Closure to Complete the Genome Assembly for Staphylococcus agnetis

@inproceedings{Koon2015GapCT,
  title={Gap Closure to Complete the Genome Assembly for Staphylococcus agnetis},
  author={Koon and A. Joseph},
  year={2015}
}

Koon, A. Joseph

Published 2015

Biology

Poultry lameness is a significant problem resulting in millions of dollars in lost revenue annually. In commercial broilers, the most common cause of lameness is bacterial chondronecrosis with osteomyelitis (BCO). The majority of BCO infections involve Staphylococcus agnetis, a bacterium previously not isolated from poultry. Administering S. agnetis in drinking water to broilers reared on wire flooring increased the incidence of BCO three-fold when compared with broilers drinking tap water (P… CONTINUE READING

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