A sensitive nested reverse transcriptase PCR assay to detect viable cells of the fish pathogen Renibacterium salmoninarum in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.)

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 3042-3047

  Cook, Marcia ^a   Lynch, William H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CELL VIABILITY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RENIBACTERIUM; RENIBACTERIUM SALMONINARUM; SALMON;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RENIBACTERIUM SALMONINARUM; SALMO SALAR; SALMONIDAE; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0033020444     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.7.3042-3047.1999     Document Type: Article

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