Real-time multiplex PCR assay for rapid detection and toxintyping of Clostridium perfringens toxin producing strains in feces of dairy cattle

Molecular and Cellular Probes

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 90-95

  Gurjar, A A ^a   Hegde, N V ^a   Love, B C ^a   Jayarao, B M ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beta2 toxin; Clostridium perfringens; Dual labeled fluorescence hybridization probe; Real time multiplex PCR

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CLOSTRIDIUM TOXIN; ENTEROTOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CATTLE DISEASE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; DAIRY CATTLE; DIARRHEA; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA PROBE; FECES ANALYSIS; FECES MICROFLORA; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HERD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CATTLE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; FECES; PENNSYLVANIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SWINE DISEASES;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 40149105247     PISSN: 08908508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcp.2007.08.001     Document Type: Article

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