Deployable, field-sustainable, reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction assays for rapid screening and serotype identification of dengue virus in mosquitoes

Military Medicine

Volumn 172, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 329-334

  McAvin, James C ^a   Powers, Michael D ^b   Blow, Jamie A ^a,c   Putnam, John L ^a,d   Huff, William B ^a   Swaby, James A ^a  

^a USAF   (United States)

^b Idaho Technology Inc   (United States)

^c UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^d UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

AEDES AEGYPTI; AEDES ALBOPICTUS; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CULEX; CULEX TRITAENIORHYNCUS; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; FLUOROGENIC PROBE HYDROLYSIS ASSAY; FREEZE DRYING; HUMAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROTYPE; SEROTYPING; THAILAND; TIME; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 33947161875     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.172.3.329     Document Type: Article

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