Development of an assay for the detection and quantification of the measles virus nucleoprotein (N) gene using real-time reverse transcriptase PCR

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 638-643

  Akiyama, Miho ^a   Kimura, Hirokazu ^a   Tsukagoshi, Hiroyuki ^b   Taira, Katsuya ^c   Mizuta, Katsumi ^d   Saitoh, Mika ^b   Nagano, Manami ^e   Sutoh, Asuka ^d   Noda, Masahiro ^a   Morita, Yukio ^b   Sakatsume, Osamu ^e   Okabe, Nobuhiko ^a   Tashiro, Masato ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b GUNMA PREFECTURAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c Okinawa Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environmental Sciences   (Japan)

^d YAMAGATA PREFECTURAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^e Applied Biosystems Japan Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS NUCLEOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENTEROVIRUS; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS; MEASLES VIRUS; MUMPS; MUMPS VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THROAT CULTURE; VIRUS DETECTION;

DNA PRIMERS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENES, VIRAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MEASLES; MEASLES VIRUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEINS; PHARYNX; PLASMIDS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 67650479375     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.005439-0     Document Type: Article

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