Detection of infectious poxvirus particles
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Arbovirus Infections As Screening Tools for the Identification of Viral Immunomodulators and Host Antiviral Factors
Published on: September 13, 2018
Andreas Nitsche1, Daniel Stern, Heinz Ellerbrok
1Robert Koch-Institut, Berlin, Germany. nitschea@rki.de
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|July 14, 2006
Abstract:
To enable rapid and reliable detection of poxviruses in clinical and environmental specimens, a diagnostic approach was developed to detect <3 PFU of infectious poxvirus particles in <5 hours. This approach involved virus culture combined with real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction detection of 2 viral genes expressed immediately after infection.

