Polymerase chain reaction assays for the diagnosis of infection with the porcine endogenous retrovirus and the detection of pig cells in human and nonhuman recipients of pig xenografts

Transplantation

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 183-188

  Switzer, William M ^a   Shanmugam, Vedapuri ^b   Chapman, Louisa ^b   Heneine, Walid ^b  

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

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; VIRUS DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BABOON; DNA SEQUENCE; GERM LINE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MACACA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROVIRUS; RETROVIRUS INFECTION; SWINE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS EXPRESSION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; DNA, VIRAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROVIRIDAE; RETROVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 0033609535     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199907270-00003     Document Type: Article

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