First international external quality assessment of molecular diagnostics for Mers-CoV

Journal of Clinical Virology

Volumn 69, Issue , 2015, Pages 81-85

  Pas, Suzan D ^a   Patel, Pranav ^b   Reusken, Chantal ^a   Domingo, Cristina ^b   Corman, Victor M ^c   Drosten, Christian ^c   Dijkman, Ronald ^d,e   Thiel, Volker ^d,e   Nowotny, Norbert ^f,g   Koopmans, Marion P G ^a   Niedrig, Matthias ^b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^d Federal Institute of Virology and Immunology   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^f SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^g UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; EQA; MERS CoV; Molecular; QPCR; Quality control; Real time RT PCR; Viral load

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HUMAN; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRUS LOAD; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; GENETICS; GOOD LABORATORY PRACTICE; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STANDARDS; VIROLOGY;

CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; LABORATORY PROFICIENCY TESTING; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 84937905701     PISSN: 13866532     EISSN: 18735967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcv.2015.05.022     Document Type: Article

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