TaqMan real-time polymerase chain reaction for detection of Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola, the fungus associated with snake fungal disease

BMC Veterinary Research

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Bohuski, Elizabeth ^a   Lorch, Jeffrey M ^b   Griffin, Kathryn M ^a   Blehert, David S ^a  

^a NATIONAL WILDLIFE HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Chrysosporium anamorph of Nannizziopsis vriesii (CANV); Emerging disease; Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola; Real time PCR; Snake fungal disease

Indexed keywords

CHRYSOSPORIUM; FUNGI; NANNIZZIOPSIS VRIESII; SERPENTES;

FUNGAL DNA;

ANIMAL; CHRYSOSPORIUM; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROCEDURES; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SNAKE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHRYSOSPORIUM; DNA, FUNGAL; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SNAKES;

EID: 84928035417     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17466148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12917-015-0407-8     Document Type: Article

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