Development of a panel of recombinase polymerase amplification assays for detection of biothreat agents

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1110-1117

  Euler, Milena ^a   Wang, Yongjie ^b   Heidenreich, Doris ^a   Patel, Pranav ^c   Strohmeier, Oliver ^d   Hakenberg, Sydney ^d   Niedrig, Matthias ^c   Hufert, Frank T ^a   Weidmann, Manfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b SHANGHAI OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCT;

ARTICLE; ASSAY; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; ISOTHERMAL RECOMBINASE POLYMERASE AMPLIFICATION ASSAY; MICROBIAL IDENTIFICATION; MICROFLUIDICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION LOOP MEDIATED ISOTHERMAL AMPLIFICATION; RIFT VALLEY FEVER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SMALLPOX VIRUS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE AGENTS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PLASMA; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; VIRUSES;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; EBOLA VIRUS; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; LAKE VICTORIA MARBURGVIRUS; RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS; VARIOLA VIRUS; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 84875836212     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02704-12     Document Type: Article

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