Rapid identification of all known retroviral reverse transcriptase sequences with a novel versatile detection assay

AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 721-729

  Seifarth, Wolfgang ^a,c   Krause, Ulf ^a   Hohenadl, Christine ^a,b   Baust, Corinna ^a   Hehlmann, Rüdiger ^a   Leib Mösch, Christine ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PRIMER DNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; VIRUS DNA;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; ENZYME ASSAY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROVIRUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS; VIRUS PARTICLE;

ANIMALS; DNA PRIMERS; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; GENE PRODUCTS, POL; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROVIRIDAE; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0034690793     PISSN: 08892229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/088922200308729     Document Type: Article

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