Detection of chicken astrovirus by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction

Avian Pathology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 293-299

  Smyth, V J ^a   Jewhurst, H L ^a   Adair, B M ^b   Todd, D ^b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b AGRI FOOD AND BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASTROVIRUS; ASTROVIRUS INFECTION; BIRD DISEASE; CHICKEN; DUCK HEPATITIS B VIRUS; GENETICS; GERMANY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ASTROVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; AVASTROVIRUS; CHICKENS; GERMANY; GREAT BRITAIN; HEPATITIS VIRUS, DUCK; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; PHYLOGENY; POULTRY DISEASES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

ASTROVIRIDAE; AVES; AVIAN NEPHRITIS VIRUS; CHICKEN ASTROVIRUS; DUCK HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

EID: 70449387137     PISSN: 03079457     EISSN: 14653338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03079450903055397     Document Type: Article

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