Improved detection of lassa virus by reverse transcription-PCR targeting the 5′ region of S RNA

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2009-2013

  Ölschläger, Stephan ^a   Lelke, Michaela ^a   Emmerich, Petra ^a   Panning, Marcus ^a,d   Drosten, Christian ^a,e   Hass, Meike ^a   Asogun, Danny ^b   Ehichioya, Deborah ^c   Omilabu, Sunday ^c   Günther, Stephan ^a  

^a BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b IRRUA SPECIALIST TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Nigeria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS   (Nigeria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLYCOPROTEIN PRECURSOR REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; HUMAN; LASSA FEVER; LASSA VIRUS; LIBERIA; NIGERIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS STRAIN;

DNA PRIMERS; HUMANS; LASSA FEVER; LASSA VIRUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIROLOGY;

LASSA VIRUS;

EID: 77952698626     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02351-09     Document Type: Article

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