Comparative Evaluation of Standard RT-PCR Assays and Commercial Real-Time RT-PCR Kits for Detection of Lassa Virus-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Comparative Evaluation of Standard RT-PCR Assays and Commercial Real-Time RT-PCR Kits for Detection of Lassa Virus

Published:2023-04-13 Issue:2 Volume:11 Page:
ISSN:2165-0497
Container-title:Microbiology Spectrum
language:en
Short-container-title:Microbiol Spectr

Author:

Luo Xue-Lian¹²,Zhang Xiu-Dan¹²,Li Bei-Jie¹²,Qin Tian¹,Cao Zhi-Jie¹,Fan Qian-Jin¹³,Yang Jing¹,Jin Dong¹^ORCID,Lu Shan¹,Zheng Ya-Yun¹,Xu Xue-Fang¹^ORCID,Pu Ji¹,Xu Jianguo¹²³⁴^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. State Key Laboratory of Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Changping, Beijing, China

2. Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, China

3. Institute of Public Health, Nankai University, Tianjin, China

4. Department of Laboratorial Science and Technology & Vaccine Research Center, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, China

Abstract

Lassa virus (LASV) is a significant human pathogen causing hemorrhagic fever in West Africa. Increased traveling around the world raises the risk of imported cases to other countries.

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Infectious Diseases,Cell Biology,Microbiology (medical),Genetics,General Immunology and Microbiology,Ecology,Physiology

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/spectrum.05011-22

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