Clinical implications of and lessons learnt from external assessment of Mers-CoV diagnostics

Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 7-9

  Pas, Suzan D ^a   Koopmans, Marion P G ^a   Niedrig, Matthias ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coronavirus; European quality assurance panel; MERS; Middle East respiratory syndrome; molecular diagnostics; SARS; virus

Indexed keywords

CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; VIRUS DIAGNOSIS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS DISEASES;

CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; PATHOLOGY, MOLECULAR; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 84955216144     PISSN: 14737159     EISSN: 17448352     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14737159.2016.1116943     Document Type: Review

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