Diagnosis and assessment of monkeypox virus (MPXV) infection by quantitative PCR assay: Differentiation of Congo Basin and West African MPXV strains

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 140-142

  Saijo, Masayuki ^a   Ami, Yasushi ^a   Suzaki, Yuriko ^a   Nagata, Noriyo ^a   Iwata, Naoko ^a   Hasegawa, Hideki ^a   Ogata, Momoko ^a   Fukushi, Shuetsu ^a   Mizutani, Tetsuya ^a   Iizuka, Itoe ^a   Sakai, Koji ^a   Sata, Tetsutaro ^a   Kurata, Takeshi ^a   Kurane, Ichiro ^a   Morikawa, Shigeru ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; SMALLPOX VACCINE; VIRUS DNA;

ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE TARGETING; IMMUNIZATION; MALE; MONKEYPOX; MONKEYPOX VIRUS; NONHUMAN; ORTHOPOXVIRUS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; THROAT CULTURE; VALIDATION PROCESS; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS INCLUSION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN;

AFRICA, WESTERN; ANIMALS; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; DNA PRIMERS; HUMANS; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; MONKEYPOX; MONKEYPOX VIRUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 43449135910     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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