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Detection, isolation, and characterization of avian influenza viruses from waterfowl in wildlife refuges in the southeastern United States (2006-2011). 

Dormitorio, Teresa (2015-12-11)
Avian influenza (AI) is an infectious disease of birds caused by type A influenza viruses. These AI viruses (AIV) commonly infect poultry and wild birds; however, some AIV strains have infected and caused mortality in a ...

The Development and Application of Quantitative Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction for the Detection of Avian Reoviruses 

Guo, Kejun (2008-08-15)
We developed a TaqMan probe based real-time RT-PCR for qualitative and quantitative detection of avian reoviruses (ARVs). The primer-probe set was designed from the conserved region of ARV S4 genome segment. ARV strains ...

Improved Detection and Control of Infectious Laryngotracheitis Virus on Poultry Farms 

Ou, Shan-Chia (2010-10-04)
Infectious laryngotracheitis virus (ILTV) is an economically important disease of chickens. The disease control relies on rapid and accurate diagnosis. Traditional ILTV diagnostic and PCR methods are either time consuming ...

Multivariate Analysis of Chlamydia pneumoniae Lung Infection in Two Inbred Mouse Strains 

Wang, Chengming (2005-12-15)
This investigation was aimed at dissecting the mechanisms of C. pneumoniae pathogenesis by multivariate analysis of challenge experiments in a mouse model of C. pneumoniae lung infection. To facilitate these analyses, a ...

The use of Bacillus subtilis as a direct-fed microbial and its effects on production and colonization of Salmonella Enteritidis and Clostridium perfringens in production broilers 

Frazier, Anthony Nathan (2015-12-11)
The growing emergence of antimicrobial resistant bacteria has given rise to consumer fear that the use antibiotics in the meat industry can lead to more antimicrobial resistant strains. Because of this fear, the poultry ...