Effect of Epstein-Barr virus sequence variation on performance of the Roche real-time lightcycler PCR assay

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2463-2465

  Feng, Tao ^a   Ye, Fei ^a   Wu, Josephine ^a   Jiang, Shiquan ^a   Coolbaugh, Jennifer ^a   Shneider, Benjamin ^a   Herold, Betsy ^a   Emre, Sukru ^a   Zhang, David Y ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLICON; BACTERIAL GENE; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; LETTER; LMP2A GENE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS STRAIN; EVALUATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 4;

EBV ASSOCIATED MEMBRANE ANTIGEN, EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; EBV-ASSOCIATED MEMBRANE ANTIGEN, EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS; MATRIX PROTEIN;

HERPESVIRUS 4, HUMAN; HUMANS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; VIRAL MATRIX PROTEINS;

EID: 49049109688     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02363-07     Document Type: Letter

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