Comparative Evaluation of Measles Virus Specific TaqMan PCR and Conventional PCR Using Synthetic and Natural RNA Templates

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 79-84

  Ozoemena, L C ^a   Minor, P D ^a   Afzal, M A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STANDARDS AND CONTROL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Measles virus; RNA; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINANT RNA; VIRUS RNA;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTAMINATION; DIAGNOSTIC KIT; DNA TEMPLATE; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY AUTOMATION; MEASLES VIRUS; N GENE; NESTED REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBONUCLEIC ACID TEMPLATE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; HUMANS; MEASLES VIRUS; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

MEASLES VIRUS;

EID: 1842455980     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.20050     Document Type: Article

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