Detection of Human-Pathogenic Poxviruses

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 665, Issue , 2011, Pages 257-278

  Kurth, Andreas ^a   Nitsche, Andreas ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Poxviruses; Real time PCR; Smallpox

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POXVIRUS; POXVIRUS INFECTION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VIROLOGY;

DNA, VIRAL; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POXVIRIDAE; POXVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 79955855683     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60761-817-1_15     Document Type: Chapter

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