Development of a Quantitative PCR Assay for Differentiating the Agent of Heartwater Disease, Ehrlichia ruminantium, from the Panola Mountain Ehrlichia

Transboundary and Emerging Diseases

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2016, Pages e260-e269

  Sayler, K A ^a   Loftis, A D ^b   Mahan, S M ^a,c   Barbet, A F ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ZOETIS   (United States)

Author keywords

diagnostic qPCR; Ehrlichia ruminantium; foreign animal disease; heartwater; livestock losses; Panola Mountain Ehrlichia

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA;

AFRICA; ANIMAL; BOVINE; CATTLE DISEASES; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIA RUMINANTIUM; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENETICS; GOAT; HEARTWATER DISEASE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHEEP; UNITED STATES;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DNA PRIMERS; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIA RUMINANTIUM; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GOATS; HEARTWATER DISEASE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHEEP; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84992051070     PISSN: 18651674     EISSN: 18651682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tbed.12339     Document Type: Article

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