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Grant Johnson1, Daryl Dick, Melissa Ayers
1Division of Microbiology, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|March 8, 2003
Abstract:
A comprehensive assay for the identification of all eight human herpesviruses has been previously reported. This assay was extended to the detection and species-level identification of herpes B virus (Cercopithecine herpesvirus 1) and African green monkey cytomegalovirus (Cercopithecine herpesvirus 5), two herpesviruses of relevance to the clinical virology laboratory.
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