Detection of reverse transcriptase activity in live attenuated virus vaccines

Clinical and Diagnostic Virology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 43-53

  Böni, Jürg ^a   Stalder, Jürg ^b   Reigel, Franz ^b   Schüpbach, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b FEDERAL OFFICE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biological products; Live attenuated virus vaccines; Reverse transcriptase; RNA dependent DNA polymerase

Indexed keywords

LIVE VACCINE; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; VACCINE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS ATTENUATION;

GALLUS GALLUS; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 0029874757     PISSN: 09280197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0928-0197(95)00159-X     Document Type: Article

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