Real-time quantitative PCR for Marek's disease vaccine virus in feather samples: Applications and opportunities

Developments in Biologicals

Volumn 126, Issue , 2006, Pages 271-281

  Baigent, S ^a   Nair, V ^a   Currie, R ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

^b ZOETIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS VACCINE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; AVIAN LYMPHOMATOSIS HERPETOVIRUS; BIRD DISEASE; CHICKEN; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEATHER; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MARDIVIRUS; MAREK DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VACCINATION; VIROLOGY; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; FEATHERS; MARDIVIRUS; MAREK DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VACCINATION; VIRAL VACCINES; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 33748622794     PISSN: 14246074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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