Modified H5 real-time reverse transcriptase-PCR oligonucleotides for detection of divergent avian influenza H5N1 viruses in Egypt

Avian Diseases

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1301-1305

  Abdelwhab, El Sayed M ^a,b   Arafa, Abdel Satar ^b   Erfan, Ahmed M ^b   Aly, Mona M ^b   Hafez, Hafez M ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Agriculture Research Center   (Egypt)

Author keywords

H5N1; highly pathogenic avian influenza; real time reverse transcriptase PCR; variant

Indexed keywords

HEMAGGLUTININ, AVIAN INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA VIRUS HEMAGGLUTININ;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; AVIAN INFLUENZA; EGYPT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; POULTRY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; EGYPT; GENETIC VARIATION; HEMAGGLUTININ GLYCOPROTEINS, INFLUENZA VIRUS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H5N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; POULTRY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AVES; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE;

EID: 78650497233     PISSN: 00052086     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1637/9412-053110-ResNote.1     Document Type: Article

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