The prevalence of three species of feline haemoplasmas in samples submitted to a diagnostics service as determined by three novel real-time duplex PCR assays

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 126, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 142-150

  Peters, Iain R ^a   Helps, Chris R ^a   Willi, Barbara ^b   Hofmann Lehmann, Regina ^b   Tasker, Séverine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Diagnosis bacterial; Feline anaemia; Feline haemoplasma; Quantitative real time PCR

Indexed keywords

EDETIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DNA SEQUENCE; MYCOPLASMA HAEMOFELIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PREVALENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; CAT DISEASES; CATS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GREAT BRITAIN; MYCOPLASMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOUTH AFRICA; SWITZERLAND;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDATUS MYCOPLASMA HAEMOMINUTUM; FELIDAE; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA HAEMOFELIS;

EID: 36749060067     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2007.06.017     Document Type: Article

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