Detection of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae by air sampling with a nested PCR assay

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 543-548

  Stärk, Katharina D C ^a   Nicolet, Jacques ^b   Frey, Joachim ^b  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR SAMPLING; AIRBORNE INFECTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; DNA SEQUENCE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMIDITY; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA HYOPNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SWINE DISEASE; ZOONOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOPLASMA HYOPNEUMONIAE; NEGIBACTERIA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0344542079     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.2.543-548.1998     Document Type: Article

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