Comparison of diagnostic techniques for Helicobacter cetorum infection in wild Atlantic bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 2842-2848

  Harper, Claudia G ^a   Whary, Mark T ^a   Feng, Yan ^a   Rhinehart, Howard L ^b   Wells, Randall S ^b   Xu, Shilu ^a   Taylor, Nancy S ^a   Fox, James G ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MOTE MARINE LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; RNA 16S;

ABSORPTION; ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC ISLANDS; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CELL SUSPENSION; CETACEA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DOLPHIN; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GASTRITIS; GENUS; HELICOBACTER CETORUM; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SCREENING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SERUM; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOMACH; WHALE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA PRIMERS; DOLPHINS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES; HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CETACEA; CORYPHAENIDAE; DELPHINAPTERUS LEUCAS; HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER CETORUM; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HELICOBACTER SP.; LAGENORHYNCHUS; LAGENORHYNCHUS ACUTUS; LAGENORHYNCHUS OBLIQUIDENS; LEUCAS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

EID: 0037477333     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.7.2842-2848.2003     Document Type: Article

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