Detection of lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus by use of fluorogenic nuclease reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction analysis

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 65-69

  Besselsen, David G ^a,b   Wagner, April M ^a   Loganbill, Jessie K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEASE;

AGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA PROBE; DNA SEQUENCE; FECES; GENE; GENE TARGETING; LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS VIRUS; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA VIRUS; TUMOR CELL LINE; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CRICETINAE; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT DYES; LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS VIRUS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED ICR; PREGNANCY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0037298367     PISSN: 00236764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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