Quality control assessment for the PCR diagnosis of tick-borne encephalitis virus infections

Journal of Clinical Virology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 73-77

  Donoso Mantke, Oliver ^a   Aberle, Stephan W ^b   Avšič Županc, Tatjana ^c   Labuda, Milan ^d   Niedrig, Matthias ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^d INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Diagnostic; ENIVD; EQA; RT PCR; Tick borne encephalitis virus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EUROPE; FLAVIVIRUS; LABORATORY; NONHUMAN; PANEL STUDY; PLASMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA VIRUS INFECTION; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAMPLE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS FLAVIVIRUS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TYPING;

ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, TICK-BORNE; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; EUROPE; HUMANS; QUALITY CONTROL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SINGAPORE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33845291098     PISSN: 13866532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcv.2006.09.001     Document Type: Article

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