High-throughput extraction, amplification, and detection (HEAD) of HCV-RNA in individual blood donations

Journal of Clinical Virology

Volumn 13, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 95-103

  Legler, Tobias J ^a   Köhler, Michael ^a   Heermann, Klaus Hinrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automation; Genome amplification technique; Hepatitis C virus; High throughput PCR; Individual blood donation screening; Nucleic acid amplification

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; THROMBOCYTE CONCENTRATE; VIRUS RNA;

AUTOANALYSIS; BLOOD DONOR; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTAMINATION; EXTRACTION; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; MAGNET; NONHUMAN; PIPETTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROBOTICS; SCREENING; SEROCONVERSION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS TITRATION;

AUTOMATION; BLOOD DONORS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HEPACIVIRUS; HUMANS; PILOT PROJECTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0345711472     PISSN: 13866532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1386-6532(99)00003-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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