Rapid detection and quantification of RNA of Ebola and Marburg viruses, Lassa virus, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus, Rift Valley fever virus, dengue virus, and yellow fever virus by real-time reverse transcription-PCR

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 2323-2330

  Drosten, Christian ^a   Göttig, Stephan ^a   Schilling, Stefan ^a   Asper, Marcel ^a   Panning, Marcus ^a   Schmitz, Herbert ^a   Günther, Stephan ^a  

^a BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TAQ POLYMERASE; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; DENGUE VIRUS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; EBOLA VIRUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; INTERCALATION COMPLEX; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LASSA VIRUS; MARBURG VIRUS; NAIRO VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIFT VALLEY FEVER BUNYAVIRUS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIRUS DETECTION; YELLOW FEVER FLAVIVIRUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; DENGUE VIRUS; DNA PRIMERS; EBOLAVIRUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER VIRUS, CRIMEAN-CONGO; HEMORRHAGIC FEVERS, VIRAL; HUMANS; LASSA VIRUS; MARBURGVIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES; RNA, VIRAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VERO CELLS; YELLOW FEVER VIRUS;

CRIMEAN-CONGO HEMORRHAGIC FEVER VIRUS; DENGUE VIRUS; EBOLA VIRUS; FLAVIVIRUS; LAKE VICTORIA MARBURGVIRUS; LASSA VIRUS; NAIROVIRUS; ORTHOBUNYAVIRUS; RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES; YELLOW FEVER VIRUS;

EID: 0036308447     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.40.7.2323-2330.2002     Document Type: Article

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