Bluetongue virus diagnosis of clinical cases by a duplex reverse transcription-PCR: A comparison with conventional methods

Journal of Virological Methods

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 77-89

  Billinis, Charalambos ^a   Koumbati, Maria ^a   Spyrou, Vassiliki ^a   Nomikou, Kyriaki ^b   Mangana, Olga ^b   Panagiotidis, Christos A ^a   Papadopoulos, Orestis ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b Institute of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bluetongue diagnosis; Bluetongue virus; Clinical cases; Reverse transcription duplex polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN; VIRUS RNA;

AFRICAN HORSE SICKNESS VIRUS; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASSAY; BLUETONGUE ORBIVIRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GOAT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORBIVIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHEEP; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS DIAGNOSIS; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION;

ANIMALS; BLUETONGUE; BLUETONGUE VIRUS; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SHEEP; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS;

AFRICAN HORSESICKNESS VIRUS; ANIMALIA; BLUETONGUE VIRUS; CAPRA HIRCUS; EPIZOOTIC HEMORRHAGIC DISEASE VIRUS; EQUUS CABALLUS; GALLUS GALLUS; ORBIVIRUS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0034838584     PISSN: 01660934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-0934(01)00360-3     Document Type: Article

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