Development and comparison of strain specific gag and pol real-time PCR assays for the detection of Visna/maedi virus

Journal of Virological Methods

Volumn 165, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 161-167

  Carrozza, Maria Luisa ^a   Mazzei, Maurizio ^b   Bandecchi, Patrizia ^b   Fraisier, Christophe ^c   Pérez, Marta ^d   Suzan Monti, Marie ^c   de Andrés, Damian ^e   Amorena, Beatriz ^e   Rosati, Sergio ^f   Andrésdottir, Valgerdur ^g   Lujan, Lluis ^d   Pepin, Michel ^h   Blacklaws, Barbara ⁱ   Tolari, Francesco ^b   Harkiss, Gordon D ^j  

^a SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^e INSTITUTO DE AGROBIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^h Healthy Pigs Production and Experimentation Section   (France)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

EV1; Lentivirus; Proviral load; Real time PCR; Viral transcript; Visna maedi virus

Indexed keywords

GAG PROTEIN; POL PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION; VISNA VIRUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENES, GAG; GENES, POL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PNEUMONIA, PROGRESSIVE INTERSTITIAL, OF SHEEP; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROVIRUSES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SHEEP; VIRAL LOAD; VISNA; VISNA-MAEDI VIRUS;

LENTIVIRUS; OVIS ARIES; VISNA/MAEDI VIRUS;

EID: 77951022911     PISSN: 01660934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2010.01.013     Document Type: Article

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