Improvement of a quantitative cell tropism assay for rapid and reliable characterization of human cytomegalovirus mutants

Journal of Virological Methods

Volumn 167, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 218-222

  Schuessler, Andrea ^a   Sampaio, Kerstin Laib ^a   Sinzger, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cell tropism; Cytomegalovirus mutant; Endothelial cells; Phenotypic characterization

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CELL ADHESION; CELL ASSAY; CELL DENSITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; RELIABILITY; STANDARDIZATION; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS CHARACTERIZATION; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS MUTANT; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

AUTOMATION; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; MUTATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; VIRAL LOAD; VIRAL TROPISM; VIROLOGY;

CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 5;

EID: 77955665375     PISSN: 01660934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2010.03.031     Document Type: Article

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