A novel, internally competitive polymerase chain reaction for quantification of Human Cytomegalovirus DNA in human leukocytes

Molecular and Cellular Probes

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 407-413

  Caballero, O L ^a   Menezes, C L P ^a   Villa, L L ^a   Simpson, A J G ^b  

^a LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Brazil)

^b A C CAMARGO CANCER CENTER   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Competitive PCR; Human cytomegalovirus; Quantification; Viral load

Indexed keywords

DNA; VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; LEUKOCYTE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS LOAD;

EID: 0033376261     PISSN: 08908508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mcpr.1999.0267     Document Type: Article

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