Development and evaluation of real-time PCR assays for the quantitative detection of Babesia caballi and Theileria equi infections in horses from South Africa

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 168, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 201-211

  Bhoora, Raksha ^a   Quan, Melvyn ^a   Franssen, Linda ^b   Butler, Catherine M ^c   Van der Kolk, Johannes H ^c   Guthrie, Alan J ^a   Zweygarth, Erich ^d   Jongejan, Frans ^b   Collins, Nicola E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d ONDERSTEPOORT VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Babesia caballi; Real time PCR; Theileria equi

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA; RNA 18S;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BABESIA CABALLI; BLOTTING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EQUINE PIROPLASMOSIS; ERYTHROCYTE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HORSE DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE LINE BLOT; RNA SEQUENCE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOUTH AFRICA; THEILERIA; THEILERIA EQUI; THEILERIOSIS;

ANIMALS; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENOTYPE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOUTH AFRICA; THEILERIA; THEILERIASIS;

BABESIA; BABESIA CABALLI; EQUIDAE; THEILERIA EQUI;

EID: 77349122777     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2009.11.011     Document Type: Article

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