Detection of Acute Bee Paralysis Virus and Black Queen Cell Virus from Honeybees by Reverse Transcriptase PCR

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 2384-2387

  Benjeddou, Mongi ^a   Leat, Neil ^a   Allsopp, Mike ^a,b   Davison, Sean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^b PLANT PROTECTION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; CLASSIFICATION; EVALUATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSECT VIRUS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PICORNAVIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; BEES; INSECT VIRUSES; PICORNAVIRIDAE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0035347267     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.5.2384-2387.2001     Document Type: Article

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