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Enhancement of detection and quantification of rotavirus in stool using a modified real-time RT-PCR assay.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Aug 2008
Freeman Molly M, Kerin Tara, Hull Jennifer, McCaustland Karen, Gentsch Jon
Abstract excerpt
A sensitive and specific real-time RT-PCR assay to detect rotavirus in stool samples was optimized and validated using a wide range of rotavirus genotypes. The target of the original TaqMan(R) assay is an 87 bp fragment of the highly conserved non-structural protein 3 (NSP3) gene. Here we modified the original assay by introducing degeneracy into the forward primer to account for sequence variation between...
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