Detection of toxoplasmosis in experimentally infected goats by PCR

Veterinary Record

Volumn 154, Issue 20, 2004, Pages 632-635

  Sreekumar, C ^a,c   Rao, J R ^a   Mishra, A K ^a   Ray, D ^a   Joshi, P ^a   Singh, R K ^b  

^a INDIAN VETERINARY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b INDIAN VETERINARY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; PRIMER DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ABORTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; BIOASSAY; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; FETUS; GOAT DISEASE; LUNG; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LYMPH NODE; MESENTERY LYMPH NODE; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ANIMALIA; CAPRA HIRCUS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 2942590585     PISSN: 00424900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/vr.154.20.632     Document Type: Article

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