Neutralizing viruses in suspensions by copper oxide-based filters

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2605-2607

  Borkow, Gadi ^a,b,e   Sidwell, Robert W ^c   Smee, Donald F ^c   Barnard, Dale L ^c   Morrey, John D ^c   Lara Villegas, Humberto H ^a,f   Shemer Avni, Yonat ^d   Gabbay, Jeffrey ^b  

^a KAPLAN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b Cupron Inc   (United States)

^c UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^e Cupron Inc   (Israel)

^f UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE NUEVO LEÓN   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER DERIVATIVE; COPPER OXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA VIRUS; FILTER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA VIRUS; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS NEUTRALIZATION; VIRUS TITRATION;

ANIMALS; BLOOD; CELL LINE; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COPPER; DNA VIRUSES; DOGS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FIBROBLASTS; FILTRATION; HELA CELLS; HIV-1; HUMANS; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; RNA VIRUSES; SUSPENSIONS; VERO CELLS; VIRUSES;

EID: 34447251602     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00125-07     Document Type: Article

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