Approaching virus safety in xenotransplantation: A search for unrecognized herpesviruses in pigs

Xenotransplantation

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 349-356

  Chmielewicz, Barbara ^a   Goltz, Michael ^a   Lahrmann, Karl Heinz ^b   Ehlers, Bernhard ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Degenerate primers; Porcine herpesviruses; Xenotransplantation; Xenozoonosis

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; DNA POLYMERASE; PRIMER DNA; VIRUS DNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BREEDING METHOD; CLASSIFICATION; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETICS; HERPES VIRUS; HERPES VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDORABIES HERPETOVIRUS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECIPIENT; RISK FACTOR; SAFETY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES; SPLEEN; SWINE; VIROLOGY; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; XENOGRAFT; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; DNA, VIRAL; HERPESVIRIDAE; HERPESVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUS SCROFA; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 0041866767     PISSN: 0908665X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3089.2003.02074.x     Document Type: Article

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