Quantification of Marek's disease virus in chicken lymphocytes using the polymerase chain reaction with fluorescence detection

Journal of Virological Methods

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 75-81

  Bumstead, Nat ^a   Sillibourne, Julie ^a   Rennie, Mike ^a   Ross, Norman ^a   Davison, Fred ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chickens; Herpesvirus; Marek's disease; Quantitative PCR

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVIAN LYMPHOMATOSIS HERPETOVIRUS; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; HERPES VIRUS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; VIRUS DETECTION;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; DNA; FLUORESCENCE; HERPESVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; HERPESVIRUS 2, GALLID; LYMPHOCYTES; MAREK DISEASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLAQUE ASSAY; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; GALLID HERPESVIRUS 2; GALLUS GALLUS; HERPES; HERPESVIRIDAE; HERPETOVIRUS; MARDIVIRUS;

EID: 0030962466     PISSN: 01660934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-0934(96)02172-6     Document Type: Article

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