Diagnostic tools for Toscana virus infection

Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 799-805

  Cusi, Maria Grazia ^a   Savellini, Gianni Gori ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

ELISA; IFA; immunoblotting; indirect immunofluorescence; real time RT PCR; RT PCR; Toscana virus

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE COURSE; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; ITALY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MENINGITIS; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PHLEBOVIRUS INFECTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERODIAGNOSIS; SPAIN; TOSCANA VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS DIAGNOSIS; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS MENINGITIS; VIRUS NEUTRALIZATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUS VIABILITY;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BUNYAVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MENINGITIS, VIRAL; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; PHLEBOTOMUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SANDFLY FEVER NAPLES VIRUS;

EID: 79961189940     PISSN: 14787210     EISSN: 17448336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/eri.11.54     Document Type: Review

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