Development and evaluation of a real-time polymerase chain reaction test for the detection of Theileria parva infections in Cape buffalo (Syncerus caffer) and cattle

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 155, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 37-48

  Sibeko, Kgomotso P ^a   Oosthuizen, Marinda C ^a   Collins, Nicola E ^a   Geysen, Dirk ^b   Rambritch, Natasha E ^c   Latif, Abdalla A ^c   Groeneveld, Hennie T ^a   Potgieter, Frederick T ^c   Coetzer, Jacobus A W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^c ONDERSTEPOORT VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Corridor disease; Detection; Real time PCR; Theileria parva

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; BUFFALO; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; GENE AMPLIFICATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA GENE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THEILERIA; THEILERIA ANNULATA; THEILERIA PARVA; THEILERIA TAUROTRAGI;

ANIMALS; BUFFALOES; CATTLE; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THEILERIA PARVA; THEILERIASIS;

ANIMALIA; BOS; IXODIDA; PROTOZOA; SYNCERUS CAFFER; SYNCERUS CAFFER CAFFER; THEILERIA; THEILERIA ANNULATA; THEILERIA PARVA; THEILERIA SP.; THEILERIA TAUROTRAGI;

EID: 45549099349     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2008.03.033     Document Type: Article

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