Development and evaluation of a real-time EBOV-L-RT-qPCR for detection of Zaire ebolavirus

Journal of Clinical Virology

Volumn 67, Issue , 2015, Pages 56-58

  Jääskeläinen, Anne J ^a,b   Moilanen, Kirsi ^b   Aaltonen, Kirsi ^b   Putkuri, Niina ^b   Sironen, Tarja ^b   Kallio Kokko, Hannimari ^a,b   Vapalahti, Olli ^a,b  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Diagnostics; EBOV; PCR

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION STUDY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS STRAIN; ZAIRE EBOLAVIRUS; EBOLAVIRUS; GENETICS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; PROCEDURES;

EBOLAVIRUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 84928892491     PISSN: 13866532     EISSN: 18735967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcv.2015.04.003     Document Type: Article

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