Rapid detection protocol for filoviruses

Journal of Clinical Virology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 94-99

  Weidmann, Manfred ^a   Mühlberger, Elke ^b   Hufert, Frank T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ebola virus; Filovirus; Lightcycler; Marburg virus; Rapid detection; Real time PCR; Smartcycler; Taqman

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; EBOLA SUDAN VIRUS; EBOLA VIRUS; EBOLA ZAIRE VIRUS; FILOVIRIDAE; MARBURG VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BASE SEQUENCE; EBOLAVIRUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; MARBURG VIRUS DISEASE; MARBURGVIRUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEINS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 1842608896     PISSN: 13866532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcv.2003.09.004     Document Type: Article

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