Evaluation of two molecular methods for the detection of Yellow fever virus genome

Journal of Virological Methods

Volumn 174, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 29-34

  Nunes, Marcio R T ^a   Palacios, Gustavo ^b   Nunes, Keley N B ^a   Casseb, Samir M M ^a   Martins, Lívia C ^a   Quaresma, Juarez A S ^a,c   Savji, Nazir ^b   Lipkin, W Ian ^b   Vasconcelos, Pedro F C ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTO EVANDRO CHAGAS   (Brazil)

^b Department of Medicine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DO PARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Molecular diagnostic; RT hemi nested PCR; SYBR green qRT PCR; Yellow fever virus

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARBOVIRUS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FLAVIVIRUS; GENUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOUSE; NESTED POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; SOUTH AMERICA; SYRIAN HAMSTER; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN; YELLOW FEVER; YELLOW FEVER FLAVIVIRUS;

ANIMALS; CRICETINAE; HUMANS; MESOCRICETUS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERUM; SOUTH AMERICA; VIROLOGY; YELLOW FEVER; YELLOW FEVER VIRUS;

ARBOVIRUS; FLAVIVIRIDAE; FLAVIVIRUS; MESOCRICETUS AURATUS; YELLOW FEVER VIRUS;

EID: 79955762555     PISSN: 01660934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2011.02.025     Document Type: Article

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