Evaluation of a real-time reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) assay for detection of middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-COV) in clinical samples from an outbreak in South Korea in 2015

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 2554-2555

  Lee, Jee Soo ^a,b   Ahn, Ji Soo ^a   Yu, Byeong Su ^a   Cho, Sung Im ^a   Kim, Man Jin ^a   Choi, Jong Moon ^a,c   Seo, Soo Hyun ^d   Park, Sung Sup ^a   Seong, Moon Woo ^a  

^a Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

^b Hallym University   (South Korea)

^c Green Cross Corporation   (South Korea)

^d Seoul National University Bundang Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC KIT; EPIDEMIC; LETTER; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; R GENE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; S GENE; SOUTH KOREA; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENE; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; EVALUATION STUDY; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; OPEN READING FRAME; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIROLOGY;

CORONAVIRUS SPIKE GLYCOPROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GENES, VIRAL; HUMANS; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; OPEN READING FRAMES; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; RNA, VIRAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SPIKE GLYCOPROTEIN, CORONAVIRUS;

EID: 85026196667     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00667-17     Document Type: Letter

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