Publications

prevalence of mycoplasma pneumoniae and chlamydia pneumoniae in pneumonia patients in four major hospitals in trinidad.	the prevalence of current mycoplasma pneumoniae and chlamydia pneumoniae infections in patients with pneumonia in trinidad, and the relationship between pneumonia and risk factors were investigated. blood samples were collected from 132 patients diagnosed by attending physicians, as suffering from pneumonia at four hospitals in trinidad. serum samples were tested for m. pneumoniae igm and igg and c. pneumoniae igm by the enzyme immunoassay (eia). in addition, c. pneumoniae igm and igg were detec ...	2004	15646048
the application of pcr and reverse line blot hybridization to detect arthropod-borne hemopathogens of dogs and cats in trinidad.	arthropod-borne diseases are important causes of morbidity and mortality of companion animals in trinidad. as clinical signs are vague, more sensitive methods to diagnose these diseases based on the polymerase chain reaction (pcr) followed by reverse line blot hybridization (rlb) of amplified products are being developed. an rlb of 14 oligonucleotide probes coupled with polymerase chain-amplified regions of 16s rrna or 18s rrna genes of hemoparasites from cats and dogs detected ehrlichia canis, ...	2008	19120209
development and use of real-time pcr to detect and quantify mycoplasma haemocanis and "candidatus mycoplasma haematoparvum" in dogs.	two canine haemoplasma species have been recognised to date; mycoplasma haemocanis (mhc), which has been associated with anaemia in splenectomised or immunocompromised dogs, and "candidatus mycoplasma haematoparvum" (cmhp), recently described in an anaemic splenectomised dog undergoing chemotherapy. the study aim was to develop quantitative real-time pcr assays (qpcrs) incorporating an endogenous internal control to detect mhc and cmhp and to apply these assays to dna samples extracted from cani ...	2010	19646827