A modelling approach to predict the variation of repeatability and reproducibility of a RT-PCR assay for infectious salmon anaemia virus across infection prevalences and infection stages

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 63-73

  Caraguel, Charles ^a   Stryhn, Henrik ^b   Gagné, Nellie ^c   Dohoo, Ian ^b   Hammell, Larry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND   (Canada)

^c FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agreement; Homogenization; Infectious salmon anaemia virus; Kappa values; Multilevel logistic model; Prevalence; Proportion of agreement; Repeatability; Reproducibility; RT PCR; Virus load

Indexed keywords

INFECTIOUS SALMON ANEMIA VIRUS;

VIRUS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; FISH DISEASE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KIDNEY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; ORTHOMYXOVIRUS; ORTHOMYXOVIRUS INFECTION; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALMON; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VALIDATION STUDY; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; FISH DISEASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; ISAVIRUS; KIDNEY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALMON; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 84859882920     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2011.08.012     Document Type: Article

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