Development and validation of real-time polymerase chain reaction assays specific to four species of Eimeria

Avian Pathology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 89-94

  Blake, Damer P ^a   Qin, Zonghua ^b   Cai, Jianping ^b   Smith, Adrian L ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL SCIENCE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; EIMERIA; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; EIMERIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EIMERIA; EIMERIA ACERVULINA; EIMERIA MAXIMA; EIMERIA NECATRIX; EIMERIA TENELLA;

EID: 38349025643     PISSN: 03079457     EISSN: 14653338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03079450701802248     Document Type: Article

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