A one-tube method of reverse transcription-PCR to efficiently amplify a 3-kilobase region from the RNA polymerase gene to the poly(A) tail of small round-structured viruses (Norwalk-like viruses)

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 570-577

  Ando, Tamie ^a   Monroe, Stephan S ^a   Noel, Jacqueline S ^a   Glass, Roger I ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE; VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA SYNTHESIS; NONHUMAN; NORWALK GASTROENTERITIS VIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS CHARACTERIZATION; VIRUS GENE;

DNA VIRUSES; MOLONEY MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; MURINAE; NORWALK VIRUS; SMALL ROUND STRUCTURED VIRUS;

EID: 0031045412     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.35.3.570-577.1997     Document Type: Article

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