Specific detection by real-time reverse-transcription PCR assays of a novel avian influenza A(H7N9) strain associated with human spillover infections in China

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 18, Issue 16, 2013, Pages

  Corman, V M ^a   Eickmann, M ^b   Landt, O ^c   Bleicker, T ^a   Brunink S ^a   Eschbach Bludau, M ^a   Matrosovich, M ^b   Becker, S ^b   Drosten, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c TIB MOLBIOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; AVIAN INFLUENZA; AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS; AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS H7N9; CHINA; CROSS REACTION; DNA PROBE; DNA TEMPLATE; HUMAN; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENOME;

EID: 84876459991     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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