A real-time quantitative assay for hepatitis B DNA virus (HBV) developed to detect all HBV genotypes

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 119-124

  Sitnik, Roberta ^a   Paes, Ângela ^a   Mangueira, Cristovão Pitangueira ^a,b   Pinho, Joaão Renato Rebello ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL ISRAELITA ALBERT EINSTEIN   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

HBV DNA quantification; Hepatitis B virus; Real time PCR; Viral load

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRUS DETECTION; GENETICS; HEPATITIS B; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROCEDURES; VALIDATION STUDY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS LOAD;

PRIMER DNA; VIRUS DNA;

DNA PRIMERS; DNA, VIRAL; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 77954835887     PISSN: 00364665     EISSN: 16789946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0036-46652010000300001     Document Type: Article

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