PCR master mixes harbour murine DNA sequences. caveat emptor!

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Tuke, Philip W ^a   Tettmar, Kate I ^a   Tamuri, Asif ^c   Stoye, Jonathan P ^c   Tedder, Richard S ^a,b  

^a NHS BLOOD AND TRANSPLANT   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GAG PROTEIN; DYES, REAGENTS, INDICATORS, MARKERS AND BUFFERS; VIRUS RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD DONOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; METHODOLOGY; MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIRUS DETECTION; XENOTROPIC MULV RELATED VIRUS; ANIMAL; BLOOD; DNA CONTAMINATION; GENETICS; MOUSE;

MURINAE;

ANIMALS; DNA CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; MICE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; XENOTROPIC MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS-RELATED VIRUS;

EID: 79957450477     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019953     Document Type: Article

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