Real-time PCR for detection of herpes simplex virus without nucleic acid extraction

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Pandori, Mark W ^a   Lei, John ^a   Wong, Ernest H ^a   Klausner, Jeffrey ^a   Liska, Sally ^a  

^a SAN FRANCISCO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA PURIFICATION; FEMALE; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS PARTICLE; VIRUS STRAIN;

DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; HERPES SIMPLEX; HERPESVIRUS 1, HUMAN; HERPESVIRUS 2, HUMAN; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33747165313     PISSN: 14712334     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-6-104     Document Type: Article

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