Diagnosis of canine leptospirosis by a highly sensitive FRET-PCR targeting the lig genes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Xu, Chuanling ^a,c   Loftis, Amanda ^b   Ahluwalia, Sudhir K ^a   Gao, Dongya ^a   Verma, Ashutosh ^b   Wang, Chengming ^a,c   Kaltenboeck, Bernhard ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROSS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Saint Kitts and Nevis)

^c YANGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BODY FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; DOG DISEASE; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIRA KIRSCHNERI; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LIG GENE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; URINALYSIS; AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENE; BLOOD; DOG; DOG DISEASES; GENETICS; LEPTOSPIRA; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOGENICITY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; URINE; VETERINARY;

AGGLUTINATION TESTS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GENES, BACTERIAL; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 84896080632     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0089507     Document Type: Article

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