Minor groove binder modification of widely used TaqMan probe for hepatitis E virus reduces risk of false negative real-time PCR results

Journal of Virological Methods

Volumn 186, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 157-160

  Garson, Jeremy A ^a,b   Ferns, Ruth B ^a   Grant, Paul R ^c   Ijaz, Samreen ^d   Nastouli, Eleni ^c   Szypulska, Renata ^d   Tedder, Richard S ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NHS BLOOD AND TRANSPLANT   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^d PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hepatitis E virus; HEV; Minor groove binder; Real time PCR; TaqMan probe

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; GENE MUTATION; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN; MELTING POINT; MINOR GROOVE BINDER; MOLECULAR PROBE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK REDUCTION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA BINDING; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VIRUS DETECTION;

FEMALE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; PLASMA; PREGNANCY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

HEPATITIS E VIRUS;

EID: 84869014115     PISSN: 01660934     EISSN: 18790984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2012.07.027     Document Type: Article

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