Description of outcomes of experimental infection with feline haemoplasmas: Copy numbers, haematology, Coombs' testing and blood glucose concentrations

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 139, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 323-332

  Tasker, Séverine ^a   Peters, Iain R ^a   Papasouliotis, Kostas ^a   Cue, Simon M ^a   Willi, Barbara ^b   Hofmann Lehmann, Regina ^b   Gruffydd Jones, Timothy J ^a   Knowles, Toby G ^a   Day, Michael J ^a   Helps, Chris R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Autoagglutination; Coombs' test; Glucose; Haemoplasma; Quantitative real time PCR

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROCYTE ANTIBODY; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ANEMIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CAT DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOMBS TEST; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPERYTHROZOONOSIS; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEMATOCRIT; MACROCYTIC ANEMIA; MALE; MEGALOCYTOSIS; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA HAEMOFELIS; MYCOPLASMA HAEMOMINUTUM; MYCOPLASMA TURICENSIS; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REFERENCE VALUE; TEMPERATURE;

ANEMIA, MACROCYTIC; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BLOOD; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CAT DISEASES; CATS; COOMBS' TEST; DNA, BACTERIAL; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS;

FELIDAE; MYCOPLASMA HAEMOFELIS;

EID: 70349986470     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2009.06.028     Document Type: Article

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