title: The molecular biology of pasteurella multocida.
abstract: Pasteurella multocida is an important veterinary and opportunistic human pathogen. The species is diverse and complex with respect to antigenic variation, host predeliction and pathogenesis. Certain serological types are the aetiologic agents of severe pasteurellosis, such as fowl cholera in domestic and wild birds, bovine haemorrhagic septicaemia and porcine atrophic rhinitis. The recent application of molecular methods such as the polymerase chain reaction, restriction endonuclease analysis, ribotyping, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, gene cloning, characterisation and recombinant protein expression, mutagenesis, plasmid and bacteriophage analysis and genomic mapping, have greatly increased our understanding of P. multocida and has provided researchers with a number of molecular tools to study pathogenesis and epidemiology at a molecular level.
authors.affiliation: Bacterial Pathogenesis Research Group, Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton, Australia.
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Hunt
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Adler
authors.forename: K M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Townsend
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000940:Antigenic Variation; D002417:Cattle; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D016521:Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field; D016680:Genome, Bacterial; D006801:Humans; D016296:Mutagenesis; D016979:Pasteurella multocida / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology / Q000472:pathogenicity; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction