Development and evaluation of a real-time reverse transcription-PCR assay for quantification of gamma interferon mRNA to diagnose tuberculosis in multiple animal species

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1563-1571

  Harrington, Noel P ^a,b   Surujballi, Om P ^a   Waters, W Ray ^c   Prescott, John F ^b  

^a CANADIAN FOOD INSPECTION AGENCY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL ANIMAL DISEASE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; SKIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ANTELOPES; BISON; BUFFALOES; CAMELIDS, NEW WORLD; CATTLE; CELLS, CULTURED; DEER; DNA PRIMERS; DNA PROBES; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GOATS; INTERFERON TYPE II; KINETICS; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MUSTELIDAE; REINDEER; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; RNA, MESSENGER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEEP; TIME FACTORS; TRICHOSURUS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 38049011379     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00263-07     Document Type: Article

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