Smallpox and pan-Orthopox Virus Detection by Real-Time 3′-Minor Groove Binder TaqMan Assays on the Roche LightCycler and the Cepheid Smart Cycler Platforms

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 601-609

  Kulesh, David A ^a   Baker, Robert O ^a   Loveless, Bonnie M ^a   Norwood, David ^a   Zwiers, Susan H ^a   Mucker, Eric ^a   Hartmann, Chris ^a   Herrera, Rafael ^a   Miller, David ^a   Christensen, Deanna ^a   Wasieloski Jr , Leonard P ^a   Huggins, John ^a   Jahrling, Peter B ^a  

^a UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; HEMAGGLUTININ; VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; GENE TARGETING; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR PROBE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOPOXVIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DESIGN; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMALLPOX VIRUS; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS ISOLATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, VIRAL; HUMANS; ORTHOPOXVIRUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMALLPOX; VARIOLA VIRUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DNA VIRUSES; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 3; ORTHOPOXVIRUS; SIMPLEXVIRUS; VARIOLA; VARIOLA VIRUS;

EID: 10744231408     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.2.601-609.2004     Document Type: Article

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