Molecular characterization of atypical Chlamydia and evidence of their dissemination in different European and Asian chicken flocks by specific real-time PCR

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2212-2222

  Zocevic, Aleksandar ^a   Vorimore, Fabien ^a   Marhold, Cvetka ^b   Horvatek, Danijela ^c   Wang, Dongying ^d   Slavec, Brigita ^b   Prentza, Zoi ^e   Stavianis, Grigorios ^e   Prukner Radovcic, Estella ^c   Dovc, Alenka ^b   Siarkou, Victoria I ^e   Laroucau, Karine ^a  

^a FRENCH AGENCY FOR FOOD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^d GUANGXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASIA; BIRD DISEASE; CHICKEN; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EUROPE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; ASIA; CHICKENS; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; EUROPE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY; POULTRY DISEASES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AVES; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIACEAE; CHLAMYDIALES; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 84864392597     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2012.02800.x     Document Type: Article

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