Diagnostic evaluation of real-time PCR in the detection of Rhodococcus equi in faeces and nasopharyngeal swabs from foals with pneumonia.
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Publication Date: 2007-08-28 PubMed ID: 17720966DOI: 10.1136/vr.161.8.272Google Scholar: Lookup
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Pusterla N, Wilson WD, Mapes S, Leutenegger CM.
(2007).
Diagnostic evaluation of real-time PCR in the detection of Rhodococcus equi in faeces and nasopharyngeal swabs from foals with pneumonia.
Vet Rec, 161(8), 272-275.
https://doi.org/10.1136/vr.161.8.272 Publication
Researcher Affiliations
- Department of Medicine and Epidemiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
MeSH Terms
- Actinomycetales Infections / diagnosis
- Actinomycetales Infections / veterinary
- Animals
- Animals, Newborn
- Feces / microbiology
- Female
- Horse Diseases / diagnosis
- Horses
- Male
- Nasopharynx / microbiology
- Pneumonia, Bacterial / diagnosis
- Pneumonia, Bacterial / veterinary
- Polymerase Chain Reaction / methods
- Rhodococcus equi / isolation & purification
- Sensitivity and Specificity
Citations
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- Mallicote M, House AM, Sanchez LC. A review of foal diarrhoea from birth to weaning.. Equine Vet Educ 2012 Apr;24(4):206-214.
- Bujold AR, Lani NR, Sanz MG. Strain-to-strain variation of Rhodococcus equi growth and biofilm formation in vitro.. BMC Res Notes 2019 Aug 19;12(1):519.
- Madrigal RG, Shaw SD, Witkowski LA, Sisson BE, Blodgett GP, Chaffin MK, Cohen ND. Use of Serial Quantitative PCR of the vapA Gene of Rhodococcus equi in Feces for Early Detection of R. equi Pneumonia in Foals.. J Vet Intern Med 2016 Mar-Apr;30(2):664-70.
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