Molecular diagnosis of viral respiratory infections

Current Infectious Disease Reports

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 149-158

  Zhang, Shu ^a,b   Zhang, Wenhong ^b   Tang, Yi Wei ^a,c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Infectious diseases; Loop mediated isothermal amplification; Mass spectrometry; Microarrays; Molecular methods; Multiplex ligation dependent probe amplification; Nucleic acid amplification tests; Real time polymerase chain reaction; Respiratory viruses; Sequence independent single primer amplification; Target enriched multiplexing polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS; BOCAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC KIT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS; HUMAN RHINOVIRUS; INFLUENZA VIRUS; MIXED INFECTION; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; NONHUMAN; PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRAL RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 79955964093     PISSN: 15233847     EISSN: 15343146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11908-011-0168-x     Document Type: Review

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