Detection of novel chlamydiae in cats with ocular disease

American Journal of Veterinary Research

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1421-1428

  von Bomhard, Wolf ^a   Polkinghorne, Adam ^b   Huat Lu, Zen ^a   Vaughan, Lloyd ^a   Vögtlin, Andrea ^c   Zimmermann, Dieter R ^a   Spiess, Bernhard ^a   Pospischil, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA 16S; RNA 23S;

ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT DISEASE; CHLAMYDIASIS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DNA EXTRACTION; ENDOSYMBIONT; EYE DISEASE; GENE SEQUENCE; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; KERATITIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAT DISEASES; CATS; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CONJUNCTIVITIS, INCLUSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

ANIMALIA; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIAE; CHLAMYDIALES; CHLAMYDOPHILA FELIS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI; FELIDAE; FELINE HERPESVIRUS 1; FELIS; FELIS CATUS; HARTMANNELLA; HARTMANNELLA VERMIFORMIS; HERPESVIRIDAE; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 1; NEOCHLAMYDIA HARTMANNELLAE; SIMPLEXVIRUS;

EID: 0242691895     PISSN: 00029645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/ajvr.2003.64.1421     Document Type: Article

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