Superiority of west nile virus RNA detection in whole blood for diagnosis of acute infection

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 2294-2297

  Lustig, Yaniv ^a   Mannasse, Batya ^a   Koren, Ravit ^a   Katz Likvornik, Shiri ^a   Hindiyeh, Musa ^a,b   Mandelboim, Michal ^a,b   Dovrat, Sara ^a   Sofer, Danit ^a   Mendelson, Ella ^a,b  

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; ISRAELI; PLASMA; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERUM; URINE; VIRUS LOAD; WEST NILE FEVER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION STUDY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ISRAEL; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; PROCEDURES; SPECIMEN HANDLING; VIROLOGY; WEST NILE VIRUS;

BLOOD; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RNA, VIRAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIMEN HANDLING; URINE; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 84977540434     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01283-16     Document Type: Article

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