Detection of mycoplasmas in goat milk by flow cytometry

Cytometry Part A

Volumn 71, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1034-1038

  Assunção, Patricia ^a   Davey, Hazel M ^b   Rosales, Ruben S ^a   Antunes, Nuno T ^a   De La Fe, Christian ^a   Ramirez, Ana S ^a   Ruiz De Galarreta, Carlos M ^a   Poveda, Jose B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contagious agalactiae; Flow cytometry; Milk; Mycoplasma; SYBR green I

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GOAT; MILK; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA AGALACTIAE; MYCOPLASMA CAPRICOLUM; MYCOPLASMA MYCOIDES; MYCOPLASMA PUTREFACIENS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; MILK; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 36849077598     PISSN: 15524922     EISSN: 15524930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cyto.a.20476     Document Type: Article

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