Mass scale screening of common arboviral infections by an affordable, cost effective RT-PCR method

Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 97-101

  Taraphdar, Debjani ^a   Sarkar, Arindam ^a   Chatterjee, Shyamalendu ^a  

^a INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Arbovims; Cost effective RT PCR method; Mass screening

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; CHIKUNGUNYA; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DENGUE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; INDIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS; MASS SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIREMIA; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS INFECTION; ARBOVIRUS; ARBOVIRUS INFECTIONS; BLOOD; CHIKUNGUNYA FEVER; ECONOMICS; ENCEPHALITIS, JAPANESE; FEVER; GENETICS; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; PROCEDURES; VIROLOGY;

JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS;

ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ARBOVIRUS INFECTIONS; ARBOVIRUSES; CHIKUNGUNYA FEVER; DENGUE; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, JAPANESE; ENCEPHALITIS, JAPANESE; FEVER; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MASS SCREENING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIREMIA;

EID: 84858141332     PISSN: 22211691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2221-1691(11)60200-1     Document Type: Article

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