Polymerase chain reaction detection of Pseudoloma neurophilia, a common microsporidian of zebrafish (Danio rerio) reared in research laboratories

Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 36-39

  Whipps, Christopher M ^a   Kent, Michael L ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGAL DETECTION; FUNGUS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MICROSPORUM; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOLOMA NEUROPHILIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL MODEL; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROSPORIDA; MICROSPORIDIOSIS;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; PSEUDOLOMA NEUROPHILIA;

ANIMALS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; MICROSPORIDIA; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; MODELS, ANIMAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 33645871301     PISSN: 15596109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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