Use of combined conventional and real-time PCR to determine the epidemiology of feline haemoplasma infections in northern Italy

Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 277-285

  Gentilini, Fabio ^a   Novacco, Marilisa ^a   Turba, Maria E ^a   Willi, Barbara ^b   Bacci, Maria L ^a   Hofmann Lehmann, Regina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANEMIA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CAT; CAT DISEASE; CHEMISTRY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ITALY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANEMIA; ANIMALS; CAT DISEASES; CATS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; ITALY; MALE; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; ODDS RATIO; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ARTHROPODA; CANDIDATUS MYCOPLASMA HAEMOMINUTUM; FELIDAE; FELINE IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA HAEMOFELIS; MYCOPLASMATALES;

EID: 61749097050     PISSN: 1098612X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfms.2008.06.008     Document Type: Article

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