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Detection of All Species of the Genus Alphavirus by Reverse Transcription-PCR with Diagnostic Sensitivity

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Specialty Microbiology
Date 2010 May 28
PMID 20504990
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Abstract

Clinical arbovirus screening requires exclusion of a broad range of viruses with as few assays as possible. We present a reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) for the detection of all species of the genus Alphavirus qualified for exclusion screening (limit of detection [LOD], 5 to 100 RNA copies per reaction across all Alphavirus species; detection of viremia down to ca. 10,000 copies per ml).

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