The reverse transcriptase activity in cell-free medium of chicken embryo fibroblast cultures is not associated with a replication-competent retrovirus

Journal of Clinical Virology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 7-18

  Khan, Arifa S ^a   Maudru, Tom ^a   Thompson, Ariane ^b   Muller, Jacqueline ^a   Sears, Johnna F ^a   Peden, Keith W C ^a  

^a CENTER FOR BIOLOGICS EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^b AMERICAN TYPE CULTURE COLLECTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Chicken embryo cell cultures; Live, attenuated virus vaccines; Replication competent retroviruses; Reverse transcriptase activity; Specific pathogen free eggs

Indexed keywords

LIVE VACCINE; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL FREE SYSTEM; CHICKEN; CYTOPATHOGENIC EFFECT; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROVIRUS; TARGET CELL; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS PARTICLE; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHICK EMBRYO; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; CULTURE MEDIA; CYTOPATHOGENIC EFFECT, VIRAL; HUMANS; KINETICS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; RETROVIRIDAE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0032563068     PISSN: 13866532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0928-0197(98)00042-7     Document Type: Article

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