Diagnosis of Barmah Forest Virus Infection by a Nested Real-Time SYBR Green RT-PCR Assay

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Hueston, Linda ^a   Toi, Cheryl S ^a   Jeoffreys, Neisha ^a   Sorrell, Tania ^b   Gilbert, Gwendolyn ^a  

^a Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology   (Australia)

^b Sydney Institute for Emerging Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BARMAH FOREST VIRUS; BARMAH FOREST VIRUS INFECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC KIT; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIMIT OF DETECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTION;

ALPHAVIRUS; ALPHAVIRUS INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; HUMANS; LIMIT OF DETECTION; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84880713154     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065197     Document Type: Article

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