Detection of nine respiratory RNA viruses using three multiplex RT-PCR assays incorporating a novel RNA internal control transcript

Journal of Virological Methods

Volumn 176, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 9-13

  Auburn, Helen ^a   Zuckerman, Mark ^a   Broughton, Simon ^a   Greenough, Anne ^a   Smith, Melvyn ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Multiplex RT PCR; Respiratory viruses; RNA internal control

Indexed keywords

5 CARBOXY X RHODAMINE; 6 CARBOXY 4,5 DICHLORO 2,7 DIMETHOXYFLUORESCEIN; 6 CARBOXYFLUORESCEIN; FLUORESCEIN DERIVATIVE; RHODAMINE; SULPHOINDOCYANINE DYE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS; HUMAN RHINOVIRUS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INFANT; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; INFLUENZA VIRUS B; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NASOPHARYNGEAL ASPIRATION; PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS 1; PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS 2; PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS 3; PLASMID; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; RESPIRATORY VIRUS; RNA EXTRACTION; RNA VIRUS; VIRUS DETECTION; WINTER;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; DNA PROBES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; NASOPHARYNX; REFERENCE STANDARDS; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA VIRUS INFECTIONS; RNA VIRUSES; RNA, VIRAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRUS CULTIVATION;

INFLUENZA A VIRUS; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 79960583442     PISSN: 01660934     EISSN: 18790984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2011.05.017     Document Type: Article

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