Temporal detection of Lawsonia intracellularis using serology and real-time PCR in Thoroughbred horses residing on a farm endemic for equine proliferative enteropathy

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 136, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 173-176

  Pusterla, Nicola ^a   Jackson, Ryan ^b   Wilson, Rachel ^b   Collier, Jessica ^a   Mapes, Samantha ^a   Gebhart, Connie ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Equine proliferative enteropathy; Horse; Lawsonia intracellularis; Real time PCR; Serology

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; PEROXIDASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; COLOSTRUM; ENTEROPATHY; ENZYME ASSAY; FARM ANIMAL; FEMALE; HORSE; LAWSONIA; LAWSONIA INTRACELLULARIS; NONHUMAN; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROCONVERSION; SEROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ASPARTATE AMMONIA-LYASE; CALIFORNIA; DESULFOVIBRIONACEAE INFECTIONS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENDEMIC DISEASES; ENTERITIS; FECES; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; IMMUNITY, MATERNALLY-ACQUIRED; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; LAWSONIA BACTERIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EQUIDAE; LAWSONIA INTRACELLULARIS;

EID: 62749134458     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2008.10.004     Document Type: Article

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