Orthopoxvirus detection in environmental specimens during suspected bioterror attacks: Inhibitory influences of common household products

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 32-37

  Kurth, Andreas ^a   Achenbach, John ^a   Miller, Liljia ^a   Mackay, Ian M ^b   Pauli, Georg ^a   Nitsche, Andreas ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA SEQUENCES; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; VIRUSES;

BIOTERROR; ORTHOPOXVIRUS DETECTION;

BIOTECHNOLOGY;

DNA; DOMESTIC CHEMICAL; VIRUS RNA;

DETECTION METHOD; DNA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TERRORISM; VIRUS;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DNA EXTRACTION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; ORTHOPOXVIRUS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; VACCINIA VIRUS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS PARTICLE; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; BIOTERRORISM; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; ORTHOPOXVIRUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VACCINIA VIRUS; VIROLOGY; VIRUS CULTIVATION;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ORTHOPOXVIRUS; VACCINIA VIRUS;

EID: 37849011175     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01501-07     Document Type: Article

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