Validation of Nonnested and Real-Time PCR for Diagnosis of Sheep-Associated Malignant Catarrhal Fever in Clinical Samples

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Sheep-associated malignant catarrhal fever (SA-MCF), a frequently fatal disease primarily of certain ruminants, is caused by ovine herpesvirus 2 (OvHV-2). Molecular diagnosis of SA-MCF in affected animals has relied on detection of OvHV-2 DNA using a nested PCR, which has significant potential for amplicon contamination as a routine method in diagnostic laboratories. In this report, a nonnested and a previously...

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