Real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction detection of haemoplasmas in healthy and unhealthy dogs from Central Macedonia, Greece

Journal of Small Animal Practice

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 645-649

  Tennant, K V ^a   Barker, E N ^a   Polizopoulou, Z ^b   Helps, C R ^a   Tasker, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLASSIFICATION; DOG; DOG DISEASE; FEMALE; GREECE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMOSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; GREECE; MALE; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CANDIDATUS MYCOPLASMA HAEMATOPARVUM; CANIS FAMILIARIS; IXODIDA; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA HAEMOCANIS;

EID: 82955162770     PISSN: 00224510     EISSN: 17485827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-5827.2011.01126.x     Document Type: Article

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