Evaluation of a new automated, standardized generic nucleic acid extraction method (total nucleic acid isolation kit) used in combination with cytomegalovirus DNA quantification by COBAS AMPLICOR CMV MONITOR

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 3881-3882

  Gärtner, Barbara Christine ^a   Fischinger, Johannes Michael ^a   Litwicki, Anke ^a   Roemer, Klaus ^a   Mueller Lantzsch, Nikolaus ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS DNA QUANTIFICATION; DNA EXTRACTION; EVALUATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOTAL NUCLEIC ACID ISOLATION;

AUTOMATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DNA, VIRAL; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; RNA, VIRAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSPLANTATION;

CUCUMBER MOSAIC VIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DNA VIRUSES;

EID: 3843122079     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.8.3881-3882.2004     Document Type: Article

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