Minimally invasive detection of Piscirickettsia salmonis in cultivated salmonids via the PCR.
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SUBMITTER: Marshall S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC106817 | biostudies-literature | 1998 Aug
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Minimally invasive detection of Piscirickettsia salmonis in cultivated salmonids via the PCR.
Marshall S S Heath S S Henríquez V V Orrego C C
Applied and environmental microbiology 19980801 8
The attributes of the PCR allowed implementation of an assay for specific detection of Piscirickettsia salmonis from a few microliters of fish serum. This opens the way to less invasive modes of sampling for this microbial pathogen in salmonids. ...[more]
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