Calibrated real-time polymerase chain reaction for specific quantitation of HHV-6A and HHV-6B in clinical samples

Journal of Virological Methods

Volumn 189, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 172-179

  Cassina, Giulia ^a   Russo, Domenico ^a   De Battista, Davide ^a   Broccolo, Francesco ^b   Lusso, Paolo ^c,d   Malnati, Mauro S ^a  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibrated PCR; Clinical diagnosis; DNA load; HHV 6A; HHV 6B; Real time quantitative PCR

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CALIBRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DOSAGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDITY; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS ISOLATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, VIRAL; HERPESVIRUS 6, HUMAN; HUMANS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROSEOLOVIRUS INFECTIONS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRAL LOAD;

HERPESVIRIDAE; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6;

EID: 84875515600     PISSN: 01660934     EISSN: 18790984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2013.01.018     Document Type: Article

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