Development of a reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction assay to detect feline herpesvirus-1 latency-associated transcripts in the trigeminal ganglia and corneas of cats that did not have clinical signs of ocular disease

American Journal of Veterinary Research

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 314-319

  Townsend, Wendy M ^a,b   Stiles, Jean ^a   Guptill Yoran, Lynn ^a   Krohne, Sheryl G ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CAT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EUTHANASIA; EYE INFECTION; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA ISOLATION; TRIGEMINUS GANGLION; UNITED STATES; VIRUS DETECTION;

ALPHAHERPESVIRINAE; ANIMALS; CAT DISEASES; CATS; CORNEA; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; HERPESVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TRIGEMINAL GANGLION;

ANIMALIA; DNA VIRUSES; FELIDAE; FELINE HERPESVIRUS 1; FELIS CATUS; HERPES; HERPESVIRIDAE; HERPESVIRUS 1; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 1;

EID: 1542725035     PISSN: 00029645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/ajvr.2004.65.314     Document Type: Article

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