Reliable universal RT-PCR assays for studying influenza polymerase subunit gene sequences from all 16 haemagglutinin subtypes

Journal of Virological Methods

Volumn 142, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 218-222

  Li, Olive T W ^a   Barr, Ian ^b   Leung, Connie Y H ^a   Chen, Honglin ^a   Guan, Yi ^a   Peiris, J S Malik ^a   Poon, Leo L M ^a  

^a THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b WHO COLLABORATING CENTRE FOR REFERENCE AND RESEARCH ON INFLUENZA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Consensus primers; Influenza virus; Polymerase chain reaction; Polymerase genes

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE ALPHA; HEMAGGLUTININ; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; ASSAY; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME SUBUNIT; GENE SEQUENCE; INFLUENZA VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRUS STRAIN;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; HEMAGGLUTININ GLYCOPROTEINS, INFLUENZA VIRUS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA REPLICASE; VIRAL PROTEINS;

AVES; MAMMALIA; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE;

EID: 34247163576     PISSN: 01660934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2007.01.015     Document Type: Article

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