Improved method for counting virus and virus like particles

Journal of Virological Methods

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 153-159

  Zheng, Yuan Zhi ^a   Webb, Rick ^a   Greenfield, Paul F ^a   Reid, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Airfuge; Bluetongue; EM 90 rotor; immunosorbent electron microscopy; virus particle counting

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; VIRUS PARTICLE;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BLUETONGUE VIRUS; CENTRIFUGATION; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; NEGATIVE STAINING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECIMEN HANDLING; VIRION;

EID: 0030446502     PISSN: 01660934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-0934(96)02100-3     Document Type: Article

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