Quantitative detection of hepadnavirus-infected lymphoid cells by in situ PCR combined with flow cytometry: Implications for the study of occult virus persistence

Journal of Virology

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 970-979

  Mulrooney, Patricia M ^a   Michalak, Tomasz I ^a,b  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC RNA; NUCLEIC ACID;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEPADNAVIRUS; HEPATITIS VIRUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LABORATORY TEST; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM; LYMPHOID CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERSISTENT VIRUS INFECTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEROLOGY; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS HEPATITIS; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEPADNAVIRIDAE; MALE; MARMOTA; MONOCYTES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0037223694     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.77.2.970-979.2003     Document Type: Article

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