Evaluation of the Tetracore Orthopox BioThreat® antigen detection assay using laboratory grown orthopoxviruses and rash illness clinical specimens

Journal of Virological Methods

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 37-42

  Townsend, Michael B ^a   MacNeil, Adam ^b   Reynolds, Mary G ^a   Hughes, Christine M ^a   Olson, Victoria A ^a   Damon, Inger K ^a   Karem, Kevin L ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

BioThreat; Diagnostic; Monkeypox; Orthopoxvirus; Rapid

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DILUTION; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LABORATORY GOWN; MONKEYPOX VIRUS; NONHUMAN; ORTHOPOXVIRUS; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RASH; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TISSUE SECTION; VACCINIA VIRUS; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION;

BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; BIOTERRORISM; DNA, VIRAL; HUMANS; MONKEYPOX; MONKEYPOX VIRUS; ORTHOPOXVIRUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POXVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; VACCINIA VIRUS;

MONKEYPOX VIRUS; ORTHOPOXVIRUS; VACCINIA VIRUS;

EID: 84871764010     PISSN: 01660934     EISSN: 18790984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2012.08.023     Document Type: Article

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