Influence of storage temperature on the stability of HIV-1 RNA and HSV-2 DNA in cervicovaginal secretions collected by vaginal washing

Journal of Virological Methods

Volumn 138, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 196-200

  Legoff, Jerome ^a   Tanton, Clare ^b   Lecerf, Maxime ^a   Grésenguet, Gérard ^c   Nzambi, Khonde ^d   Bouhlal, Hicham ^a   Weiss, Helen ^b   Belec, Laurent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c Centre National de Reference des Maladies Sexuellement Transmissibles et du SIDA de Bangui   (Central African Republic)

^d STD   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Genital secretions; HIV 1; HSV 2; Nucleic acid; Stability

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRUCTURE; FEMALE; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA STABILITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STORAGE TEMPERATURE; SUPERINFECTION; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY; VAGINA SECRETION; VAGINAL LAVAGE; VAGINAL ULCER; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TITRATION;

CERVIX UTERI; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; HERPESVIRUS 2, HUMAN; HIV-1; HUMANS; REFRIGERATION; RNA, VIRAL; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TEMPERATURE; VAGINA; VAGINAL DOUCHING;

HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 2; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; SIMPLEXVIRUS;

EID: 33750983331     PISSN: 01660934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2006.07.013     Document Type: Article

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