Rapid Diagnosis of Simian Varicella Using the Polymerase Chain Reaction

Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 45-49

  Gray, Wayne L ^a   Williams, Rhonda J ^a   Soike, Kenneth F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b TULANE NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CERCOPITHECUS; CHICKENPOX; GENETICS; HERPES VIRUS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEUKOCYTE; MONKEY DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN; VERO CELL; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CHICKENPOX; DNA, VIRAL; HERPESVIRIDAE; LEUKOCYTES; MONKEY DISEASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN; VERO CELLS;

EID: 0031992118     PISSN: 00236764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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