Detection of all known filovirus species by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction using a primer set specific for the viral nucleoprotein gene

Journal of Virological Methods

Volumn 171, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 310-313

  Ogawa, Hirohito ^a,b   Miyamoto, Hiroko ^b   Ebihara, Hideki ^c   Ito, Kimihito ^b   Morikawa, Shigeru ^d   Feldmann, Heinz ^c   Takada, Ayato ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA   (Zambia)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Ebola virus; Filovirus; Marburg virus; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC RNA; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EBOLA VIRUS; EBOLA VIRUS INFECTION; FILOVIRUS INFECTION; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; MARBURG HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; MARBURG VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TISSUE SECTION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS NUCLEOPROTEIN GENE;

ANIMALS; DNA PRIMERS; FILOVIRIDAE; HUMANS; NUCLEOPROTEINS; PRIMATES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALIA; EBOLA VIRUS; LAKE VICTORIA MARBURGVIRUS; MARBURGVIRUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 78650575820     PISSN: 01660934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2010.11.010     Document Type: Article

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