The ongoing degradation of natural systems and other environmental changes has put our
society at a crossroad with respect to our future relationship with our planet. While the …

The aim of the present study is to highlight the advantages of real-time quantitative PCR
intended to aid in the diagnosis and monitoring of canine leishmaniosis. Diagnosis of canine …

The aim of this component was to establish the range of DLA diversity in as many dog breeds
as possible. In particular, we wanted to collect breeds that had not previously been studied…

Previous serological surveys have reported the presence of different organisms in cats from
Spain but little reports exist about the exact identity of these organisms. The purpose of the …

The use of feathers in veterinary clinical practice simplifies the sampling of avian genomic
DNA, especially when blood extraction is difficult because of the age or the size of the bird. A …

The aims of the present study were to determine the prevalence of hemoplasmas in cats
and dogs from the Barcelona area of Spain with the use of species-specific quantitative …

… Real-time quantitative (q) PCR for Leishmania infantum was carried out according to the
method described by Francino et al. [14]. The targets of primers (Table 2) and TaqMan-MGB …

Background: Profiling the microbiome of low-biomass samples is challenging for
metagenomics since these samples are prone to contain DNA from other sources (eg host or …

… o antineoplásica. Métodos – se tomaron muestras del pelo (250-300 pelos con sus bulbos)
de cinco o … de la edad, el sexo, la raza o la capa. Sin embargo, la población de ácaros en un …

Blood samples from 153 dogs living in and around Barcelona were assayed for Leishmania
infantum and Ehrlichia, Anaplasma, Rickettsia, Bartonella, Hepatozoon, Babesia and …