Evaluation of different diagnostic methods for the detection of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis in boot swabs and liquid manure samples

Evaluation of different diagnostic methods for the detection of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis in boot swabs and liquid manure samples

Abstract Background Environmental sampling based on boot swabs and/or liquid manure samples is an upcoming strategy for the identification of paratuberculosis (paraTB) positive herds, but only limited data are available regarding the diagnostic performance of molecular detection methods (qPCR) versu...

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Main Authors: Nathalie Hahn, Klaus Failing, Tobias Eisenberg, Karen Schlez, Peter-Michael Zschöck, Karsten Donat, Esra Einax, Heike Köhler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-08-01
Series:BMC Veterinary Research
Subjects:
Cultural isolation
Diagnostic performance
DNA extraction
Environmental samples
qPCR
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12917-017-1173-6

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