Identification of feline immunodeficiency virus subtype-B on St. Kitts, West Indies by quantitative PCR

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 480-483

  Kelly, Patrick J ^a   Stocking, Ruey ^a   Gao, Dongya ^b   Phillips, Nikol ^a   Xu, Chuanling ^a   Kaltenboeck, Bernhard ^b   Wang, Chengming ^a  

^a ROSS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Saint Kitts and Nevis)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Caribbean; Feline immunodeficiency virus; FRET PCR

Indexed keywords

EDETIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CAT; CAT DISEASE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FELINE IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS INFECTION;

FELINE IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

EID: 79960190955     PISSN: 20366590     EISSN: 19722680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3855/jidc.1844     Document Type: Article

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