Detection of infectious poxvirus particles

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1139-1141

  Nitsche, Andreas ^a   Stern, Daniel ^a   Ellerbrok, Heinz ^a   Pauli, Georg ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DNA VIRUS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; POXVIRUS INFECTION; PREDICTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 33745948916     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1207.060093     Document Type: Article

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