Validation of a quantitative PCR diagnostic method for detection of the microsporidian Ovipleistophora ovariae in the cyprinid fish Notemigonus crysoleucas

Diseases of Aquatic Organisms

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 215-221

  Phelps, Nicholas B D ^a   Goodwin, Andrew E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT PINE BLUFF   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyprinid; Microsporidia; PCR

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; CYPRINID; DETECTION METHOD; FUNGUS; PARASITE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYPRINIDAE; GLUGEA; GLUGEA STEPHANI; HETEROSPORIS; MICROSPORIDIA; NOTEMIGONUS CRYSOLEUCAS; NOTROPIS CHRYSOLEUCAS; NUCLEOSPORA SALMONIS; OVIPLEISTOPHORA; PSEUDOLOMA;

FUNGAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CYPRINIFORMES; FEMALE; FISH DISEASE; FUNGUS SPORE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROSPORIDA; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYPRINIDAE; DNA, FUNGAL; FEMALE; FISH DISEASES; MALE; MICROSPORIDIA; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPORES, FUNGAL;

EID: 35748959633     PISSN: 01775103     EISSN: 16161580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/dao076215     Document Type: Article

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