Sensitivity of PCR assays for murine gammaretroviruses and mouse contamination in human blood samples

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Lee, Li Ling ^a   Lin, Lin ^a   Bell, David S ^b   Levine, Susan ^c   Hanson, Maureen R ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c PRIVATE PRACTICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CELL CULTURE; CELL STRAIN LNCAP; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL GENE; UNITED STATES; VIRAL CONTAMINATION;

ANIMALS; DNA CONTAMINATION; DNA, VIRAL; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA VIRUS, MURINE; MICE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

MURINAE; MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS;

EID: 84861325039     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037482     Document Type: Article

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