Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, February 8th, 2005 "The
protistan parasite Perkinsus marinus is a severe pathogen of the
oyster Crassostrea virginica along the east coast of the United
States. Very few data have been collected, however, on the
abundance of the parasite in environmental waters, limiting our
understanding of P. marinus transmission dynamics," scientists
in the United States report. "Real-time PCR assays with
SybrGreen I as a label for detection were developed in this
study for quantification of P. marinus in environmental waters
with P. marinus species-specific primers and... Want to see the
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