A real-time Taqman method for hepatitis C virus genotyping

Journal of Clinical Virology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 115-121

  Rolfe, Kathryn J ^a   Alexander, Graeme J M ^b   Wreghitt, Tim G ^a   Parmar, Surendra ^a   Jalal, Hamid ^a   Curran, Martin D ^a  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Genotype; HCV; Non coding region; Rotor Gene; Taqman probes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR PROBE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS LOAD;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; GENOTYPE; HEPACIVIRUS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, VIRAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 24644445179     PISSN: 13866532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcv.2005.02.011     Document Type: Article

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