Immunoblot detection of antibodies to Toscana virus

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 83-86

  Schwarz, Tino F ^a,b   Gilch, Sabine ^a   Pauli, Christof ^a   Jäger, Gundula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bunyaviridae; Laboratory diagnosis; Nucleoprotein; Phlebovirus; Sandfly fever virus

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BUNYAVIRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; RNA VIRUS INFECTION; SERODIAGNOSIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CROSS REACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PHLEBOTOMUS FEVER; PHLEBOVIRUS;

BUNYAVIRIDAE; ORTHOBUNYAVIRUS; PHLEBOVIRUS; RNA VIRUSES; SANDFLY FEVER NAPLES VIRUS; SANDFLY FEVER SICILIAN VIRUS; TOSCANA VIRUS;

EID: 0029882229     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9071(199606)49:2<83::AID-JMV2>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Article

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