Development of sensitive methods for detection of porcine endogenous retrovirus-C (PERV-C) in the genome of pigs

Journal of Virological Methods

Volumn 175, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 60-65

  Kaulitz, Danny ^a   Mihica, Debora ^a   Dorna, Jens ^b   Costa, Michael Rodrigues ^b   Petersen, Björn ^c   Niemann, Heiner ^c   Tönjes, Ralf R ^b   Denner, Joachim ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b PAUL EHRLICH INSTITUT   (Germany)

^c FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Nested PCR; Porcine endogenous retroviruses (PERV); Real time PCR; Xenotransplantation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; EXPERIMENTAL PIG; GENOME ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PORCINE ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS C; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROVIRUS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROVIRUS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIRAL CONTAMINATION; VIRUS DETECTION; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA PRIMERS; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; GENOME; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

ANIMALIA; PORCINE ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; SUIDAE;

EID: 79958004118     PISSN: 01660934     EISSN: 18790984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2011.04.017     Document Type: Article

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