Performance of the RealStar Chikungunya virus real-time reverse transcription-PCR kit

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 3014-3016

  Panning, Marcus ^a,d   Hess, Markus ^b   Fischer, Waldemar ^b   Grywna, Klaus ^a   Pfeffer, Martin ^c,e   Drosten, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b Astra Diagnostics   (Germany)

^c BUNDESWEHR INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^e Institute of Animal Hygiene and Veterinary Public Health   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHIKUNGUNYA ALPHAVIRUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVICE; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRUS LOAD;

ALPHAVIRUS INFECTIONS; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRAL LOAD;

CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS;

EID: 69949107824     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01024-09     Document Type: Article

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