Fake virus particles generated by fluorescence microscopy

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-5

  Forterre, Patrick ^a,b   Soler, Nicolas ^a   Krupovic, Mart ^b   Marguet, Evelyne ^a   Ackermann, Hans W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Epifluorescence microscopy; Gene transfer agent; Membrane vesicle; Viral ecology; Virome

Indexed keywords

CELL DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; FLUORESCENT DYE; RIBOSOME RNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS RNA;

ARCHAEON; BIOSPHERE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL VACUOLE; DNA VIRUS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENT DOT; GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; MARKER GENE; METAGENOMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA VIRUS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VIRION; VIROLOGY; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS PARTICLE; VIRUS STRAIN;

ARTIFACTS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; VIRION;

EID: 84871686557     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: 18784380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2012.10.005     Document Type: Review

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