Detection of latent infection by Epstein-Barr virus in peripheral blood cells of healthy individuals and in non-neoplastic tonsillar tissue from patients by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction

Journal of Virological Methods

Volumn 58, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 81-89

  Takeuchi, Hiroaki ^a   Kobayashi, Ryo ^a   Hasegawa, Makoto ^b   Hirai, Kanji ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Epstein Barr virus infection; High sensitivity; Nucleic acid extraction; Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT PCR)

Indexed keywords

HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 4;

VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LATENT VIRUS INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TONSIL; VIRUS DETECTION;

BURKITT LYMPHOMA; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE BAMHI; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, VIRAL; GENE EXPRESSION; HERPESVIRUS 4, HUMAN; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TONSIL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; VIRUS LATENCY;

EID: 0030058225     PISSN: 01660934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0166-0934(95)01993-6     Document Type: Article

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