Are false negative direct immnufluorescence assays caused by Varicella zoster virus gE mutant strains?

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 631-635

  Taha, Yusri A ^a   Quinlivan, Mark ^a   Scott, Fiona T ^a   Leedham Green, Mary ^a   Hawrami, Khidir ^a   Thomas, Janice M ^b   Breuer, Judith ^a,b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

MSP; Virus diagnosis; VZV

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; GLYCOPROTEIN E; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY 3B3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TISSUE CULTURE; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS DIAGNOSIS; VIRUS MUTANT; VIRUS STRAIN;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, DIRECT; HERPES ZOSTER; HERPESVIRUS 3, HUMAN; HUMANS; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS; VIRUS CULTIVATION;

HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 1; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 3; SIMPLEXVIRUS;

EID: 3042737304     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.20137     Document Type: Article

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