New method of differentiating wild-type varicella-zoster virus (VZV) strains from Oka varicella vaccine strain by VZV ORF 6-based PCR and restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis

Journal of Clinical Virology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 113-119

  Takayama, Michiko ^a   Takayama, Naohide ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN KOMAGOME HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Oka varicella vaccine; PCR RFLP analysis; Varicella zoster virus

Indexed keywords

CHICKENPOX VACCINE; DNA FRAGMENT; NUCLEOTIDE; VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIRUS STRAIN; WILD TYPE;

EID: 1642512656     PISSN: 13866532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1386-6532(03)00112-4     Document Type: Article

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