A novel diagnostic target in the hepatitis C virus genome

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2009

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http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15267
 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000031
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Authors
Drexler, Jan Felix
Kupfer, Bernd
Petersen, Nadine
Grotto, Rejane Maria Tommasini
Rodrigues, Silvia Maria Corvino
Grywna, Klaus
Panning, Marcus
Annan, Augustina
Silva, Giovanni Faria
Douglas, Jill
Journal Title

PLOS Medicince

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http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine
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Public Library of Science

Publisher

University of Cape Town

Department
Division of Medical Microbiology
Faculty
Faculty of Health Sciences
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

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Abstract
Christian Drosten and colleagues develop, validate, and make openly available a prototype hepatitis C virus assay based on the conserved 3' X-tail element, with potential for clinical use in developing countries.
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Keywords
Hepatitis C virus
Viral load
Reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction
Prototypes
Sequence databases
Sequence alignment
Brazil
Blood

Reference:

Drexler, J. F., Kupfer, B., Petersen, N., Maria, R., Grotto, T., Rodrigues, S. M. C., ... & Drosten, C. (2009). A novel diagnostic target in the hepatitis C virus genome. PLoS medicine, 6(2), 210. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000031

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