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- noun Plural form of
serovar .
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Examples
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Secondly, the name Listeria monocytogenes does not describe a single bacterium, but a whole family of bacteria, grouped in what are known as "serovars".
A cautionary tale Richard 2005
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One of the species that causes intestinal infection is Salmonella enterica, which has 2,500 distinct types, or serovars, all causing pretty much the same symptoms: vomiting, stomach pain, diarrhea and fever.
Egg-loving salmonella bacteria have been sickening people for decades 2010
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One of those serovars, SE, behaves differently from the others in crucial ways.
Egg-loving salmonella bacteria have been sickening people for decades 2010
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But candidate vaccines have shown promise in covering both ranges of serovars.
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One reason why Chlamydia trachomatis does not appear on too many radar screens is that the disease burden affecting chidren: blinding trachoma and that affecting adults (STI, and trachoma) are treated quite separately in burden of disease studies, but the causative organism is the same Chlamydia trachomatis, although the serovars concerned are different.
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Serological studies in cattle in various African countries report overall leptospiral serovars prevalences of 10. 4% in Malawai and 45% [50] in Mali.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Francesca Scolamacchia et al. 2010
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Salmonella enterica has many serovars which have different host specificity.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Vidya Devi Negi et al. 2010
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The Siena, Italy-based Novartis Vaccines Institute for Global Health is investigating two approaches: conjugate vaccines based on mixtures of serotype-specific surface polysaccharides and a vaccine based on individual or mixtures of outer membrane proteins that have the potential to protect against multiple serovars of S. enterica.
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Salmonella enterica has many serovars which have different host specificity.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Vidya Devi Negi et al. 2010
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The method can be applied as well to human beings as to animals, plants or microorganisms and can therefore be used for the determination of species, strains or serovars.
innovations-report 2010
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