Quantitative polymerase chain reaction for Porcine circovirus-2 in swine feces in a Porcine circovirus disease-affected commercial herd and a nonaffected commercial herd

Canadian Veterinary Journal

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1189-1194

  McIntosh, Kathleen A ^a   Harding, John C S ^a   Parker, Sarah ^a   Krakowka, Steven ^b   Allan, Gordon ^c   Ellis, John A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AGRI FOOD AND BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHEMISTRY; CIRCOVIRIDAE; FECES; FEMALE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LACTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTWEANING MULTISYSTEMIC WASTING SYNDROME; SWINE; VIROLOGY; VIRUS SHEDDING;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CIRCOVIRUS; DNA, VIRAL; FECES; FEMALE; LACTATION; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORCINE POSTWEANING MULTISYSTEMIC WASTING SYNDROME; SASKATCHEWAN; SWINE; VIRUS SHEDDING;

CIRCOVIRIDAE; PORCINE CIRCOVIRUS; PORCINE CIRCOVIRUS 2; SUIDAE;

EID: 58249121804     PISSN: 00085286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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