Real-time PCR to identify variola virus or other human pathogenic orthopox viruses

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 606-613

  Scaramozzino, Natale ^a   Ferrier Rembert, Audrey ^a   Favier, Anne Laure ^a   Rothlisberger, Corinne ^a   Richard, Stéphane ^a   Crance, Jean Marc ^a   Meyer, Hermann ^b   Garin, Daniel ^a,c  

^a CENTRE DE RECHERCHES   (France)

^b BUNDESWEHR INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c NONE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COWPOX VIRUS; MONKEYPOX VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOPOXVIRUS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SMALLPOX VIRUS; VACCINIA VIRUS; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS STRAIN;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, VIRAL; GENOME, VIRAL; HUMANS; ORTHOPOXVIRUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VARIOLA VIRUS; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIROLOGY;

MONKEYPOX VIRUS; ORTHOPOXVIRUS; POXVIRIDAE; VACCINIA VIRUS; VARIOLA; VARIOLA VIRUS;

EID: 34147224167     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2006.068635     Document Type: Article

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