Short report: Comprehensive panel of real-time TaqMan™ polymerase chain reaction assays for detection and absolute quantification of filoviruses, arenaviruses, and new world hantaviruses

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 954-960

  Trombley, Adrienne R ^a   Wachter, Leslie ^b   Garrison, Jeffrey ^c   Buckley Beason, Valerie A ^a   Jahrling, Jordan ^d   Hensley, Lisa E ^a   Schoepp, Randal J ^a   Norwood, David A ^a   Goba, Augustine ^e   Fair, Joseph N ^f   Kulesh, David A ^a  

^a UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b MEDIMMUNE   (United States)

^c BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^e Kenema Government Hospital   (Sierra Leone)

^f Global Viral Forecasting Initiative   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT; VACCINE; VIRUS RNA;

ARENAVIRUS; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; FILOVIRUS; HANTAVIRUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLAQUE FORMING CELL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS LOAD; CLASSIFICATION; FILOVIRIDAE; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ARENAVIRIDAE; BUNYAVIRIDAE; FILOVIRIDAE; HANTAVIRUS; LAKE VICTORIA MARBURGVIRUS; RNA VIRUSES;

ARENAVIRUS; FILOVIRIDAE; HANTAVIRUS; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77952716931     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2010.09-0636     Document Type: Article

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