Development and evaluation of an efficient 3′-noncoding region based SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV) RT-PCR assay for detection of SARS-CoV infections

Journal of Virological Methods

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 33-40

  Houng, Huo Shu H ^a   Norwood, David ^b   Ludwig, George V ^b   Sun, Wellington ^a   Lin, Minta ^c   Vaughn, David W ^d  

^a WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c OneGene Biotech Inc   (Taiwan)

^d U S ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH AND MATERIEL COMMAND   (United States)

Author keywords

3 Noncoding region.; Quantitative RT PCR; Real time RT PCR; SARS coronavirus; Severe acute respiratory syndrome

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EPIDEMIC; EVALUATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECOMBINANT PLASMID; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; SAMPLING; SARS CORONAVIRUS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; TAIWAN; VIRUS GENOME;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENOME, VIRAL; HUMANS; PHARYNX; PLAQUE ASSAY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SARS VIRUS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; TAIWAN;

CORONAVIRUS; SARS CORONAVIRUS;

EID: 3242802782     PISSN: 01660934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2004.04.008     Document Type: Article

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