Development and application of a quantitative real-time PCR assay to detect feline leukemia virus RNA

Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology

Volumn 123, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 81-89

  Torres, Andrea N ^a   O'Halloran, Kevin P ^a   Larson, Laurie J ^b   Schultz, Ronald D ^b   Hoover, Edward A ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

FeLV; Immune response; Latent; Real time PCR

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN P27; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FELINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; CATS; DNA, VIRAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; LEUKEMIA VIRUS, FELINE; LEUKEMIA, FELINE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS;

FELINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; MIRIDAE;

EID: 43049178383     PISSN: 01652427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetimm.2008.01.013     Document Type: Article

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