Use of real-time PCR to detect Mycoplasma haemofelis and 'Candidatus Mycoplasma haemominutum' in the saliva and salivary glands of haemoplasma-infected cats

Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 413-417

  Dean, Rachel S ^a   Helps, Chris R ^a   Gruffydd Jones, Timothy J ^a   Tasker, Séverine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CAT; CAT DISEASE; CHEMISTRY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOPLASMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALIVA; SALIVARY GLAND; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME;

ANIMALS; CAT DISEASES; CATS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE AMPLIFICATION; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALIVA; SALIVARY GLANDS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

CANDIDATUS MYCOPLASMA HAEMOMINUTUM; FELIDAE; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA HAEMOFELIS;

EID: 48349120874     PISSN: 1098612X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfms.2007.12.007     Document Type: Article

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