Length variability of telomeric repeat sequences of human herpesvirus 6 DNA

Journal of Virological Methods

Volumn 159, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 127-130

  Achour, Abla ^a   Malet, Isabelle ^a   Deback, Claire ^a   Bonnafous, Pascale ^a   Boutolleau, David ^a   Gautheret Dejean, Agnès ^a,b   Agut, Henri ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES PHARMACEUTIQUES ET BIOLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

Genetic variability; Human herpesvirus 6; Human herpesvirus 6 variant; Mixed infection; Telomeric repeat sequence

Indexed keywords

AGAROSE; ETHIDIUM BROMIDE; ETHINYLESTRADIOL PLUS MEGESTROL ACETATE; VIRUS DNA;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTION;

CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; DNA, VIRAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, VIRAL; HERPESVIRUS 6, HUMAN; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROSEOLOVIRUS INFECTIONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; TELOMERE;

HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6;

EID: 67349274674     PISSN: 01660934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2009.03.002     Document Type: Article

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