Dry cotton or flocked respiratory swabs as a simple collection technique for the molecular detection of respiratory viruses using real-time NASBA

Journal of Virological Methods

Volumn 153, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 84-89

  Moore, Catherine ^a   Corden, Sally ^a   Sinha, Jaisi ^a   Jones, Rachel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dry respiratory swab; Real time NASBA; Respiratory viruses

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COTTON; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; INFLUENZA VIRUS B; LABORATORY TEST; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCE BASED AMPLIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS INHIBITION;

GOSSYPIUM; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA B VIRUS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; PARAMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS INFECTIONS; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS, HUMAN; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SELF-SUSTAINED SEQUENCE REPLICATION; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS;

EID: 53049102602     PISSN: 01660934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2008.08.001     Document Type: Article

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