Reliability of non-lethal surveillance methods for detecting ranavirus infection

Diseases of Aquatic Organisms

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-6

  Gray, Matthew J ^a   Miller, Debra L ^a,b   Hoverman, Jason T ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Iridovirus; Molecular technique; PCR; Ranavirus; Sampling; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

DISEASE PREVALENCE; ETIOLOGY; FROG; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAMPLING; VIRAL DISEASE; VIRUS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; IRIDOVIRUS; LITHOBATES; RANA CATESBEIANA; RANAVIRUS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BULLFROG; IRIDOVIRUS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LARVA; METHODOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TAIL; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; LARVA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANA CATESBEIANA; RANAVIRUS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TAIL;

EID: 84863744073     PISSN: 01775103     EISSN: 16161580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/dao02436     Document Type: Article

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