Influenza A virus drift variants reduced the detection sensitivity of a commercial multiplex nucleic acid amplification assay in the season 2014/15

Archives of Virology

Volumn 161, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 2417-2423

  Huzly, Daniela ^a   Korn, Klaus ^b   Bierbaum, Sibylle ^a   Eberle, Björn ^a   Falcone, Valeria ^a   Knöll, Antje ^b   Steininger, Philipp ^b   Panning, Marcus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETICS; HUMAN; INFANT; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA A VIRUS (H3N2); MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; VERY ELDERLY; VIROLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; GENETIC DRIFT; HUMANS; INFANT; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H3N2 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84975149859     PISSN: 03048608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00705-016-2930-8     Document Type: Article

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