Sensitivity and specificity of culture and PCR of smegma samples of bulls experimentally infected with Tritrichomonas foetus

Theriogenology

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 853-860

  Cobo, E R ^a   Favetto, P H ^a   Lane, V M ^a   Friend, A ^a   VanHooser, K ^a   Mitchell, J ^b   BonDurant, R H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Certified Semen Services (CSS) Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Bull; Culture; Diagnosis; PCR; Tritrichomonas foetus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY FLUID; CATTLE; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; EVALUATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESERVATION; SARCOMASTIGOPHORA INFECTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRICHOMONAS FOETUS;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; MALE; MASTIGOPHORA INFECTIONS; MODELS, ANIMAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESERVATION, BIOLOGICAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMEGMA; TRITRICHOMONAS FOETUS;

CAMPYLOBACTER FETUS; CAMPYLOBACTER FETUS SUBSP. VENEREALIS; TETRATRICHOMONAS; TRITRICHOMONAS FOETUS;

EID: 34548202594     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2007.06.019     Document Type: Article

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