Real-time PCR assay for clostridium perfringens in broiler chickens in a challenge model of necrotic enteritis

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1135-1139

  Wu, Shu Biao ^a   Rodgers, Nicholas ^a   Choct, Mingan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL COUNT; BROILER CHICKENS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CULTURE METHODS; CULTURE-BASED METHODS; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; INTESTINAL TRACT; NECROTIC ENTERITIS; REAL-TIME PCR; REAL-TIME PCR ASSAY; RELATIVE STANDARD DEVIATIONS; STANDARD DEVIATION;

ANIMALS; CLOSTRIDIUM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACTERIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POULTRY; REAL TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL LOAD; BIRD DISEASE; CHICKEN; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENTERITIS; EVALUATION; GENETICS; ILEUM; INTESTINE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NECROSIS; PATHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CHICKENS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CULTURE MEDIA; ENTERITIS; ILEUM; INTESTINES; LINEAR MODELS; NECROSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POULTRY DISEASES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 79551502291     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01803-10     Document Type: Article

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