Contamination of clinical specimens with MLV-encoding nucleic acids: Implications for XMRV and other candidate human retroviruses

Retrovirology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Smith, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; NUCLEIC ACID; RNA;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; CARCINOMA CELL; DNA CONTAMINATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSTATE CANCER; VIRAL CONTAMINATION; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS DETECTION; XENOTROPIC MULV RELATED VIRUS; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; PROSTATE TUMOR; RETROVIRUS; VIROLOGY;

XENOTROPIC MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS;

DNA CONTAMINATION; FATIGUE SYNDROME, CHRONIC; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA VIRUS, MURINE; MALE; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; RETROVIRIDAE; XENOTROPIC MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS-RELATED VIRUS;

EID: 78650289504     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17424690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-4690-7-112     Document Type: Article

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