Quantitative real-time PCR assays for detection and quantification of all seven Eimeria species that infect the chicken

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 174, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 183-190

  Vrba, Vladmir ^a   Blake, Damer P ^b   Poplstein, Martin ^a  

^a Research Institute of Biopharmacy and Veterinary Drugs   (Czech Republic)

^b ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chicken; Coccidiosis; Diagnostics; Eimeria; Real time quantitative PCR

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ARTICLE; CHICKEN; COCCIDIOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EIMERIA; EIMERIA ACERVULINA; EIMERIA BRUNETTI; EIMERIA MAXIMA; EIMERIA MITIS; EIMERIA NECATRIX; EIMERIA PRAECOX; EIMERIA TENELLA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYST; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE CHARACTERIZED AMPLIFIED REGION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; COCCIDIOSIS; EIMERIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POULTRY DISEASES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EIMERIA; EIMERIA ACERVULINA; EIMERIA BRUNETTI; EIMERIA MAXIMA; EIMERIA MITIS; EIMERIA NECATRIX; EIMERIA PRAECOX; EIMERIA TENELLA;

EID: 78649325326     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2010.09.006     Document Type: Article

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