Contamination of commercially available fetal bovine sera with bovine viral diarrhea virus genomes: Implications for the study of hepatitis C virus in cell cultures

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 174, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1324-1327

  Yanagi, Masayuki ^a   Bukh, Jens ^a   Emerson, Suzanne U ^a   Purcell, Robert H ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOVINE SERUM ALBUMIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CATTLE DISEASE; CELL CULTURE; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0029852821     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/174.6.1324     Document Type: Article

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