Detection of pathogenic elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus in routine trunk washes from healthy adult Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) by use of a real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction assay

American Journal of Veterinary Research

Volumn 71, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 925-933

  Stanton, Jeffrey J ^a   Zong, Jian Chao ^b   Latimer, Erin ^c   Tan, Jie ^a   Herron, Alan ^a   Hayward, Gary S ^b   Ling, Paul D ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; VIRUS DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASIA; BLOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ELEPHANT; ELEPHANT ENDOTHELIOTROPIC HERPESVIRUS 1; HERPES VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SECRETION; TRUNK; VIRUS DETECTION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; REFERENCE VALUE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME;

ANIMALIA; ELEPHANTIDAE; ELEPHAS MAXIMUS; HERPESVIRIDAE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, VIRAL; ELEPHANTS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENES, VIRAL; GENOME, VIRAL; GENOTYPE; HERPESVIRIDAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REFERENCE VALUES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 77956804274     PISSN: 00029645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/ajvr.71.8.925     Document Type: Article

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