Kinetics of Rift Valley Fever Virus in experimentally infected mice using quantitative real-time RT-PCR

Journal of Virological Methods

Volumn 151, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 277-282

  Näslund, Jonas ^a,b   Lagerqvist, Nina ^a,b,c   Lundkvist, Åke ^c   Evander, Magnus ^b   Ahlm, Clas ^b   Bucht, Göran ^a,d  

^a SWEDISH DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

^d NATIONAL ENVIRONMENT AGENCY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Animal model; Kinetics; Real time PCR; Rift Valley Fever Virus

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; VIRUS RNA;

AFRICA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BRAIN TISSUE; CELL KINETICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FEMALE; LIVER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RELIABILITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIFT VALLEY FEVER BUNYAVIRUS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIRUS DETECTION; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; BLOOD; BRAIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, VIRAL; KIDNEY; KINETICS; LIVER; LUNG; MICE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIFT VALLEY FEVER; RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS; RNA, VIRAL; SPLEEN; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; MUS; RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS;

EID: 46949107190     PISSN: 01660934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2008.04.007     Document Type: Article

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