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Detection and genotyping of varicella-zoster virus by TaqMan allelic discrimination real-time PCR.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Apr 2004
Campsall Paul A, Au Nicholas H C, Prendiville Julie S, Speert David P, Tan Rusung, Thomas Eva E
Abstract excerpt
A proportion of individuals vaccinated with live attenuated Oka varicella-zoster virus (VZV) vaccine subsequently develop attenuated chicken pox and/or herpes zoster. To determine whether postvaccination varicella infections are caused by vaccine or wild-type virus, a simple method for distinguishing the vaccine strain from wild-type virus is required. We have developed a TaqMan real-time PCR assay to detect and...
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