Development of a Usutu virus specific real-time reverse transcription PCR assay based on sequenced strains from Africa and Europe

Journal of Virological Methods

Volumn 197, Issue , 2014, Pages 51-54

  Nikolay, B ^a,b,c   Weidmann, M ^d   Dupressoir, A ^e   Faye, O ^a   Boye, C S ^c   Diallo, M ^a   Sall, A A ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR DE DAKAR   (Senegal)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CHEIKH ANTA DIOP   (Senegal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^e Institut Gustave Roussy   (France)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Flavivirus; Real time RT PCR; Standard RNA; Usutu virus

Indexed keywords

PRIMER RNA;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; FLAVIVIRUS; GENE SEQUENCE; LIMIT OF DETECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA PROBE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; USUTU FLAVIVIRUS; VIROGENESIS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN;

AVES; FLAVIVIRUS; USUTU VIRUS;

COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CV; DIAGNOSIS; FLAVIVIRUS; R; REAL-TIME RT-PCR; STANDARD RNA; USUTU VIRUS; USUV;

AFRICA; DNA PRIMERS; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, JAPANESE; ENCEPHALITIS, ARBOVIRUS; EUROPE; FLAVIVIRUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84891352188     PISSN: 01660934     EISSN: 18790984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2013.08.039     Document Type: Article

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