Detection of all Chlamydophila and Chlamydia spp. of veterinary interest using species-specific real-time PCR assays

Comparative Immunology, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 473-484

  Pantchev, Alexandra ^a   Sting, Reinhard ^a   Bauerfeind, Rolf ^b   Tyczka, Judith ^a   Sachse, Konrad ^c  

^a Chemisches und Veterinäruntersuchungsamt Stuttgart ^*  (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chlamydia; Chlamydophila; Diagnostics; Domestic animals; Mammals; Real time PCR; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; GENOMIC DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CAT; CATTLE; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA SUIS; CHLAMYDOPHILA; CHLAMYDOPHILA ABORTUS; CHLAMYDOPHILA CAVIAE; CHLAMYDOPHILA FELIS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DOG; FECES CULTURE; GOAT; GUINEA PIG; HORSE; HOST RANGE; NONHUMAN; RABBIT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEEP; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SWINE; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ANIMALS; CATS; CATTLE; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDOPHILA; CHLAMYDOPHILA INFECTIONS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DOGS; GOATS; GUINEA PIGS; HORSES; HOST SPECIFICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RABBITS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEEP; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWINE;

ANIMALIA; BOS; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CAPRA HIRCUS; CAVIA; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA SUIS; CHLAMYDIACEAE; CHLAMYDIAE; CHLAMYDIALES; CHLAMYDOPHILA; CLINICAL SAMPLES (NEOCHLAMYDIA); CLINICAL SAMPLES (PARACHLAMYDIACEAE); EQUIDAE; FELIS; MAMMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; OVIS ARIES; SUIDAE;

EID: 78650206381     PISSN: 01479571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cimid.2009.08.002     Document Type: Article

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