Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus stability in environmental and clinical substrates: Implications for virus detection and isolation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Dornas, Fábio P ^a   Silva, Lorena C F ^a   De Almeida, Gabriel M ^a   Campos, Rafael K ^a   Boratto, Paulo V M ^a   Franco Luiz, Ana P M ^a   La Scola, Bernard ^b   Ferreira, Paulo C P ^a   Kroon, Erna G ^a   Abrahão, Jônatas S ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

ACANTHAMOEBA POLYPHAGA MIMIVIRUS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOSPITAL; MIMIVIRUS; NONHUMAN; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS PARTICLE; VIRUS STABILITY; VIRUS TITRATION;

AMEBIASIS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; DNA, VIRAL; ENVIRONMENT; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MIMIVIRIDAE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIROLOGY; WATER;

EID: 84896883192     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0087811     Document Type: Article

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