Hend Karam Abdelsalam Sorour <br/><br/>
Studies on chlamydial infection in poultry /  
 دراسات عن عدوى الكلاميديا فى الدواجن 
Hend Karam Abdelsalam Sorour ; Supervised Youssef Ibrahim Youssef , Sahar Ahmed ZouElfakar , Khalid Madian Ahmed 
 - Cairo :   Hend Karam Abdelsalam Sorour ,   2012 
 - 154 Leaves :   charts , facsimiles ;   30cm 
<br/><br/>Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Veterinary Medicine - Department of Animal Diseases 
<br/><br/> The prevalence of chlamydophila peittaci in the examined turkeys (15-35%), ducks (10-15%), chickens (5%) and pigeons (13.4-28.7%). The detection of chlamydial infection by real time PCR was more sensitive than the isolation of organism in embryonated chickens eggs or in vero cell culture. Experimental infection of turkey poults and young ducklings intra tracheal with isolated chlamydophila peittaci from turkeys and ducks respectively 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Avian Chlamydiosis Chlamydophila psittaci PCR