Comparison of carpet and toothbrush techniques for the detection of Microsporum canis in cats.

Aline Elisa SantanaCarlos P TabordaKilder D FilgueiraFábio P SelleraCarlos E LarssonArchivaldo Reche-Junior

Published in: Journal of feline medicine and surgery (2019)

The concordance rate between the carpet and toothbrush techniques among the 78 evaluable culture plates was 100%. Both methods are equally effective for collecting material for M canis culture. Additionally, both techniques are inexpensive and easy to perform in feline clinical practice.

Keyphrases

clinical practice
loop mediated isothermal amplification
label free
real time pcr
clinical evaluation
sensitive detection