Multicenter comparison of PCR assays for detection of human herpesvirus 6 DNA in serum

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2700-2706

  Flamand, Louis ^a,b   Gravel, Annie ^a   Boutolleau, David ^c   Alvarez Lafuente, Roberto ^d   Jacobson, Steve ^e   Malnati, Mauro S ^f   Kohn, Debra ^g   Tang, Yi Wei ^h   Yoshikawa, Tetsushi ⁱ   Ablashi, Dharam ^j  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d HOSPITAL CLÍNICO SAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^f SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^g LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^h VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^j The HHV 6 Foundation   (United States)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONTENT; DNA DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERUM; STANDARDIZATION; BLOOD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; STANDARD; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS LOAD;

HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6;

VIRUS DNA;

DNA, VIRAL; HERPESVIRUS 6, HUMAN; HUMANS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROSEOLOVIRUS INFECTIONS; SERUM; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 53149153018     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00370-08     Document Type: Article

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