Transmission, diagnosis, and recommendations for control of Pseudoloma neurophilia infections in laboratory Zebrafish (Danio rerio) facilities

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 322-329

  Murray, Katrina N ^a   Dreska, Mathew ^a   Nasiadka, Andrzej ^a   Rinne, Miranda ^b   Matthews, Jennifer L ^a   Carmichael, Carrie ^a   Bauer, Justin ^a   Varga, Zoltan M ^a   Westerfield, Monte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b Ripley's Aquarium of the Smokies   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FUNGUS TRANSMISSION; INFECTION CONTROL; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOLOMA NEUROPHILIA INFECTION; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; DNA PRIMERS; FISH DISEASES; HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; MICROSPORIDIA; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84857479517     PISSN: 15320820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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