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Genetic characterization of variant strains of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 that escaped detection by real-time reverse transcriptase-PCR diagnostic tests.
Avian diseases - 1 Mar 2010
Arafa Abdel-Satar M, Selim A A, Hassan M K, Aly M M
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The highly pathogenic avian influenza virus of subtype H5N1 that caused serious outbreaks in Egypt in 2006 was efficiently detected using a commercially available real-time reverse transcriptase-PCR (RRT-PCR) for the type A specific matrix (M) gene in field samples of cloacal and tracheal swabs. RRT-PCR was also used for subtyping and confirmation of H5 subtype. During late 2007 the National Laboratory for...
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