Emerging technologies for the detection of rabies virus: Challenges and hopes in the 21st century

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Fooks, Anthony R ^a   Johnson, Nicholas ^a   Freuling, Conrad M ^b   Wakeley, Philip R ^a   Banyard, Ashley C ^a   McElhinney, Lorraine M ^a   Marston, Denise A ^a   Dastjerdi, Akbar ^a   Wright, Edward ^c   Weiss, Robin A ^c   Müller, Thomas ^b  

^a VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^b FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIGEN; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIGEN DETECTION; CHROMATOGRAPHY; DIRECT RAPID IMMUNOHISTOCHEMICAL TEST; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; IMMUNOCHROMATOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOSENSOR; LENTIVIRINAE; LENTIVIRUS PSEUDOTYPE; LOOP MEDIATED ISOTHERMAL AMPLIFICATION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCE BASED AMPLIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POTENTIOMETRIC IMMUNOSENSOR; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; RAPID IMMUNODIAGNOSTIC TEST; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SERODIAGNOSIS; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 70449511121     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000530     Document Type: Review

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