Real-time PCR investigation of feline leukemia virus proviral and viral RNA loads in leukocyte subsets

Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology

Volumn 123, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 124-128

  Cattori, Valentino ^a   Pepin, Andrea C ^a   Tandon, Ravi ^a   Riond, Barbara ^a   Meli, Marina L ^a   Willi, Barbara ^a   Lutz, Hans ^a   Hofmann Lehmann, Regina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Pathogenesis; Real time TaqMan qPCR; Retrovirus

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; VIRUS DNA;

DISEASE FREE INTERVAL; FELINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; FELINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS INFECTION; GERMFREE ANIMAL; GRANULOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE; MONOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PROVIRUS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REMISSION; RETICULOENDOTHELIAL SYSTEM; RETROVIRUS INFECTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHORT SURVEY; VIREMIA; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; CAT DISEASES; CATS; LEUKEMIA VIRUS, FELINE; PROVIRUSES; RETROVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS; VIRAL LOAD;

ANIMALIA; FELINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; GAMMARETROVIRUS;

EID: 43049153429     PISSN: 01652427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetimm.2008.01.018     Document Type: Short Survey

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