Development and evaluation of a 'real-time' RT-PCR for the detection of enterovirus and parechovirus RNA in CSF and throat swab samples

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 555-562

  Corless, Caroline E ^a   Guiver, Malcolm ^a   Borrow, Raymond ^a   Edwards Jones, Valerie ^b   Fox, Andrew J ^a   Kaczmarski, Edward B ^a   Mutton, Kenneth J ^a  

^a WITHINGTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Enterovirus; Meningitis; Parechovirus; RT PCR; TaqMan ; Two step

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; COXSACKIE VIRUS; DEVICE; ECHO VIRUS; ENTEROVIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARECHOVIRUS; PICORNAVIRUS; PICORNAVIRUS INFECTION; POLIOMYELITIS VIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS TYPING;

ENTEROVIRUS; ENTEROVIRUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MENINGITIS, VIRAL; PHARYNX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TAQ POLYMERASE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ECHOVIRUS; ENTEROVIRUS; HUMAN ECHOVIRUS 2; PARECHOVIRUS; POLIOVIRUS;

EID: 0036305978     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.10138     Document Type: Article

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