Detection and differentiation of rabbit hemorrhagic disease and European brown hare syndrome viruses by amplification of VP60 genomic sequences from fresh and fixed tissue specimens

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 2492-2495

  Bascuñana, Carlos Ros ^a   Nowotny, Norbert ^b,c   Belák, Sándor ^a  

^a NATIONAL VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLEEDING DISORDER; CALICIVIRUS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EUROPEAN BROWN HARE SYNDROME VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENOME;

CALICIVIRIDAE; EUROPEAN BROWN HARE SYNDROME VIRUS; LEPUS; LEPUS CAPENSIS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; RABBIT HEMORRHAGIC DISEASE VIRUS;

EID: 1842301084     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.35.10.2492-2495.1997     Document Type: Article

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