From Haemobartonella to hemoplasma: Molecular methods provide new insights

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 125, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 197-209

  Willi, Barbara ^a   Boretti, Felicitas S ^a   Tasker, Séverine ^b   Meli, Marina L ^a   Wengi, Nicole ^a   Reusch, Claudia E ^a   Lutz, Hans ^a   Hofmann Lehmann, Regina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Candidatus Mycoplasma turicensis; Haemobartonella felis; Hemoplasma; Mycoplasma haemofelis; Real time PCR; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; DOXYCYCLINE; ENROFLOXACIN; MARBOFLOXACIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE ACETATE; PREDNISOLONE;

ANEMIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CAT DISEASE; DISEASE CARRIER; INFECTIOUS ANEMIA; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA HAEMOFELIS; MYCOPLASMA HAEMOMINUTUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; CAT DISEASES; CATS; DNA, BACTERIAL; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

CANDIDATUS MYCOPLASMA HAEMOMINUTUM; FELIDAE; FELIS CATUS; MAMMALIA; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA HAEMOFELIS; MYCOPLASMATALES;

EID: 35348915907     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2007.06.027     Document Type: Review

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