Highly sensitive and broadly reactive quantitative reverse transcription-PCR assay for high-throughput detection of Rift Valley fever virus

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3506-3513

  Bird, Brian H ^a,b   Bawiec, Darcy A ^a   Ksiazek, Thomas G ^a   Shoemaker, Trevor R ^a   Nichol, Stuart T ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDEMIC; EPIZOOTIOLOGY; FATALITY; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; GENE PROBE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; LIVESTOCK; MOSQUITO; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIFT VALLEY FEVER BUNYAVIRUS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SAUDI ARABIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRAL GENETICS; VIREMIA; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS; RNA, VIRAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRAL LOAD;

MOSQUITO-BORNE VIRUSES; RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS;

EID: 36348952122     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00936-07     Document Type: Article

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