Comparison of surface sampling methods for virus recovery from fomites

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 6918-6925

  Julian, Timothy R ^a,b   Tamayo, Francisco J ^a   Leckie, James O ^a   Boehm, Alexandria B ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFECTIOUS DISEASE; LITERATURE REVIEWS; LOWER LIMIT OF DETECTIONS; PLAQUE ASSAY; RINGER'S SOLUTION; SALINE SOLUTIONS; SAMPLING METHOD; SURFACE SAMPLING;

POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOVERY; RNA;

VIRUSES;

VIRUS RNA;

BACTERIOPHAGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DETECTION METHOD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENE EXPRESSION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAMPLING; VIRUS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; FOMITE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIROLOGY; VIRUS CULTURE;

BACTERIOPHAGES; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; FOMITES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; VIRAL PLAQUE ASSAY; VIROLOGY;

EID: 82955234164     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.05709-11     Document Type: Article

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