Design of primers and use of RT-PCR assays for typing European bluetongue virus isolates: Differentiation of field and vaccine strains

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 88, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2811-2823

  Mertens, Peter P C ^a   Maan, N S ^a   Prasad, G ^b   Samuel, A R ^a   Shaw, A E ^a   Potgieter, A C ^c   Anthony, S J ^a   Maan, S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

^b CCS HARYANA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c ONDERSTEPOORT VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLUETONGUE ORBIVIRUS VACCINE; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; LIVE VACCINE; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; PROTEIN SEG2; PROTEIN VP2; SEGMENT 2 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS VACCINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; BLUETONGUE ORBIVIRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEROTYPE; SHEEP DISEASE; VACCINE PRODUCTION; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS NEUTRALIZATION; VIRUS STRAIN;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BLUETONGUE; BLUETONGUE VIRUS; DNA PRIMERS; EUROPE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENOME, VIRAL; GEOGRAPHY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA, VIRAL; SEROTYPING;

BLUETONGUE VIRUS; DSRNA VIRUSES; MIRIDAE; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 34548640003     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.83023-0     Document Type: Article

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