Monitoring HCV RNA viral load by locked nucleic acid molecular beacons real time PCR

Journal of Virological Methods

Volumn 140, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 148-154

  Morandi, Luca ^a   Ferrari, Daniela ^b   Lombardo, Claudia ^b   Pession, Annalisa ^a   Tallini, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

HCV; Internal control; LNA; Molecular beacon; Real time PCR

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DISEASE COURSE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR PROBE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RNA ANALYSIS; VIRUS LOAD;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA PROBES; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRAL LOAD;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

EID: 33846628101     PISSN: 01660934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2006.11.014     Document Type: Article

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