Detection of clostridium piliforme by enzymatic assay of amplified cDNA segment in microtitration plates

Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 493-496

  Goto, Kazuo ^a   Itoh, Toshio ^a  

^a CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIMENTAL ANIMALS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CLOSTRIDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DNA PROBE; ENZYMATIC ASSAY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; NONHUMAN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TITRIMETRY;

ANIMALS; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ENZYME TESTS; ILEUM; LIVER; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, SCID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RATS; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; RODENT DISEASES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0029811216     PISSN: 00236764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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