Article
Comprehensive Detection and Serotyping of Human Adenoviruses by PCR and Sequencing
1 Sept 2004
Abstract excerpt
Human adenoviruses are common pathogens associated with many diseases, including respiratory, gastrointestinal, and ocular infections. Because they are now being increasingly recognized as agents of life-threatening disseminated infection in immunocompromised patients, robust and sensitive laboratory detection methods are needed for their rapid diagnosis. We describe here a PCR assay using a single primer pair,...