Quantification of replication of clinical cytomegalovirus isolates in cultured endothelial cells and fibroblasts by a focus expansion assay

Journal of Virological Methods

Volumn 63, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 103-112

  Sinzger, Christian ^a   Knapp, Jutta ^a   Plachter, Bodo ^b   Schmidt, Karin ^a   Jahn, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

clinical isolates; focus expansion assay; human cytomegalovirus; phenotypic characterisation; quantification of viral replication

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; VIROGENESIS; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 5;

EID: 0031013636     PISSN: 01660934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-0934(97)02082-X     Document Type: Article

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