Quantitation of human astrovirus by real-time reverse-transcription-polymerase chain reaction to examine correlation with clinical illness

Journal of Virological Methods

Volumn 134, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 190-196

  Zhang, Zhian ^a   Mitchell, Douglas K ^a   Afflerbach, Carol ^a   Jakab, Ferenc ^a   Walter, Jolan ^a   Zhang, Yan Jin ^a   Staat, Mary A ^b   Azimi, Parvin ^c   Matson, David O ^a  

^a CENTER FOR PEDIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OAKLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Human astrovirus; RNA copy number; RT2 PCR

Indexed keywords

AMPLICON; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASTROVIRUS; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIARRHEA; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FECES ANALYSIS; GASTROENTERITIS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS INFECTION; WEANING;

ASTROVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CACO-2 CELLS; CHILD; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; HUMANS; MAMASTROVIRUS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; ROTAVIRUS INFECTIONS;

ASTROVIRIDAE; HUMAN ASTROVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS;

EID: 33646133198     PISSN: 01660934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2006.01.009     Document Type: Article

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