Detection and differentiation of coccidian oocysts by real-time PCR and melting curve analysis

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 725-730

  Lalonde, Laura F ^a   Gajadhar, Alvin A ^a  

^a Centre for Food Borne and Animal Parasitology   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANIMAL WELFARE; BIOASSAY; DETECTION METHOD; DISEASE PREVALENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FECES; FOOD SAFETY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEALTH MONITORING; LIFE CYCLE; MELTING; MORPHOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN; SPORE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

ARTICLE; COCCIDIA; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM MURIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; CYCLOSPORA CAYETANENSIS; DILUTION; EIMERIA; EIMERIA BOVIS; FOOD SAFETY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; ISOSPORA; MELTING CURVE ANALYSIS; MELTING POINT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYST; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SARCOCYSTIS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ANIMALS; CATS; CATTLE; COCCIDIA; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FECES; HUMANS; OOCYSTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWINE; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALIA; COCCIDIA; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM MURIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; CYCLOSPORA CAYETANENSIS; EIMERIA; EIMERIA ACERVULINA; EIMERIA BOVIS; ISOSPORA; ISOSPORA SUIS; SARCOCYSTIS; SARCOCYSTIS CRUZI; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 80051760020     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: 19372345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-2706.1     Document Type: Article

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