Assessment of a novel real-time pan-flavivirus RT-polymerase chain reaction

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 665-671

  Johnson, Nicholas ^a   Wakeley, Philip R ^a   Mansfield, Karen L ^a   McCracken, Fiona ^a   Haxton, Ben ^a   Phipps, Lawrence Paul ^a   Fooks, Anthony R ^a  

^a VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

West Nile

Indexed keywords

NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 5; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE;

AMPLICON; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DENGUE VIRUS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FLAVIVIRUS; FLAVIVIRUS INFECTION; HEALTH SURVEY; IMMUNOASSAY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAN FLAVIVIRUS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS FLAVIVIRUS; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; CULICIDAE; FLAVIVIRUS; GREAT BRITAIN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; UNITED STATES; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS;

AVES; DENGUE VIRUS; FLAVIVIRUS; IXODIDA; LOUPING ILL VIRUS; TICK-BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; USUTU VIRUS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 77957573149     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2009.0210     Document Type: Article

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