Development of an optimized method for the detection of airborne viruses with real-time PCR analysis

Virology Journal

Volumn 8, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Ziros, Panos G ^a   Kokkinos, Petros A ^a   Legaki, Euaggelia ^a   Vantarakis, Apostolos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

air pollution; air sampling; airborne viruses; and wastewater treatment plant; human adenovirus; norovirus

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS; AIR SAMPLING; AIRBORNE VIRUS; ARTICLE; CULTURE MEDIUM; LOW MELTING AGAROSE PLATE; NONHUMAN; NOROVIRUS; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS DETECTION; CLASSIFICATION; DNA VIRUS; ECONOMICS; EVALUATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; RNA VIRUS; TIME; VIROLOGY; VIRUS LOAD;

HUMAN ADENOVIRUS; NOROVIRUS; RNA VIRUSES;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; SEPHAROSE;

AIR MICROBIOLOGY; DNA VIRUSES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA VIRUSES; SEPHAROSE; TIME FACTORS; VIRAL LOAD; VIROLOGY;

EID: 79960684718     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1743422X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1743-422X-8-369     Document Type: Article

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