Relevance of a full-length genomic RNA standard and a thermal-shock step for optimal hepatitis delta virus quantification

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3334-3338

  Homs, Maria ^a,b   Giersch, Katja ^c   Blasi, Maria ^a,b   Luẗgehetmann, Marc ^c   Buti, Maria ^a,b   Esteban, Rafael ^a,b   Dandri, Maura ^c   Rodriguez Frias, Francisco ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION STUDY; GENETICS; HEPATITIS D; HEPATITIS DELTA VIRUS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; PROCEDURES; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARDS; TEMPERATURE; VIROLOGY; VIRUS LOAD;

HEPATITIS D; HEPATITIS DELTA VIRUS; HUMANS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TEMPERATURE; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 84906872210     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00940-14     Document Type: Article

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