Quantitative real time polymerase chain reaction assays for the sensitive detection of Besnoitia besnoiti infection in cattle

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 178, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 208-216

  Schares, G ^a   Maksimov, A ^a   Basso, W ^a,b,c,d   More G ^b,c   Dubey, J P ^e   Rosenthal, B ^e   Majzoub, M ^f   Rostaher, A ^f   Selmair, J ^g   Langenmayer, M C ^f   Scharr, J C ^f   Conraths, F J ^a   Gollnick, N S ^f  

^a FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^b FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS VETERINARIAS   (Argentina)

^c Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^g Inning am Holz ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Besnoitia bennetti; Besnoitia besnoiti; Besnoitia tarandi; Besnoitiosis; Diagnosis; Real time PCR

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1; RIBOSOME RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY TITER; APICOMPLEXA; ARTICLE; BESNOITIA BENNETTI; BESNOITIA BESNOITI; BESNOITIA DARLINGI; BESNOITIA NEOTOMOFELIS; BESNOITIA ORYCTOFELISI; BESNOITIA TARANDI; BESNOITIOSIS; CATTLE DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; EIMERIA BOVIS; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; HAMMONDIA HAMMONDI; HAMMONDIA HEYDORNI; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; ISOSPORA; LIMIT OF DETECTION; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA GENE; SARCOCYSTIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN BIOPSY; TISSUE SECTION; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; VAGINA MUCOSA; VAGINAL SCRAPING;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COCCIDIOSIS; CONJUNCTIVA; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, DIRECT; GERMANY; LINEAR MODELS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SARCOCYSTIDAE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VAGINA;

ANIMALIA; BESNOITIA; BESNOITIA BENNETTI; BESNOITIA BESNOITI; BESNOITIA DARLINGI; BESNOITIA ORYCTOFELISI; BESNOITIA TARANDI; BOS; BOVINAE; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; EIMERIA BOVIS; HAMMONDIA HAMMONDI; HAMMONDIA HEYDORNI; HEXAPODA; ISOSPORA; NEOSPORA CANINUM; RANGIFER TARANDUS; SARCOCYSTIS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

EID: 79956275472     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: 18732550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2011.01.038     Document Type: Article

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