Re-examination of the prevalence of Aphanomyces astaci in North American crayfish populations in Central Europe by TaqMan MGB real-time PCR

Diseases of Aquatic Organisms

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 113-125

  Kozubíková, Eva ^a   Vrålstad, Trude ^b,c   Filipová, Lenka ^a,d   Petrusek, Adam ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b NORWEGIAN VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

Author keywords

Agent level; Aphanomyces astaci; Crayfish plague; Orconectes limosus; Pacifastacus leniusculus; Pathogen detection; Real time PCR; Semi nested PCR

Indexed keywords

SPACER DNA;

CRAYFISH; DISEASE PREVALENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INFECTIVITY; PARASITIC DISEASE; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; APHANOMYCES; ARTICLE; CRAYFISH; EUROPE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; APHANOMYCES; ASTACOIDEA; DNA, INTERGENIC; EUROPE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CENTRAL EUROPE;

EID: 82955235067     PISSN: 01775103     EISSN: 16161580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/dao02411     Document Type: Article

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