Detection of false positives with a commonly used Norovirus RT-PCR primer set

Journal of Clinical Virology

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 84-85

  Wollants, Elke ^a   Van Ranst, Marc ^a  

^a REGA INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

N ACETYL BETA GLUCOSAMINIDASE;

ANNEALING TEMPERATURE; BACTERIAL GENOME; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FECES; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; LETTER; NONHUMAN; NOROVIRUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RUMINOCOCCUS; RUMINOCOCCUS TORQUES; SCREENING; TEMPERATURE; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; DNA PRIMERS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NOROVIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIROLOGY;

EID: 84871521102     PISSN: 13866532     EISSN: 18735967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcv.2012.09.007     Document Type: Letter

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