Establishment of the first International Standard for nucleic acid amplification technology (NAT) assays for HCV RNA

Vox Sanguinis

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 149-158

  Saldanha, J ^a   Lelie, N ^b   Heath, A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STANDARDS AND CONTROL   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRAL LABORATORY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSAY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNATIONAL STANDARD UNIT; LABORATORY; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS;

GENE AMPLIFICATION; HEPACIVIRUS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0032954992     PISSN: 00429007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000031040     Document Type: Article

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