A comparison of quantitative-competitive and realtime PCR assays using an identical target sequence to detect Epstein-Barr virus viral load in the peripheral blood

Journal of Virological Methods

Volumn 137, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 205-212

  Xu, Shushen ^a   Green, Michael ^b   Kingsley, Laurence ^a   Webber, Steven ^b   Rowe, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnostic PCR; Epstein Barr virus; PCR normalization; Quantitative PCR; Viral load

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID; VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; CELL LYSATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; GENOME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS LOAD;

BLOOD; DNA, VIRAL; HERPESVIRUS 4, HUMAN; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; VIRAL LOAD;

HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 4;

EID: 33748700615     PISSN: 01660934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2006.06.012     Document Type: Article

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