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Reliable quantification of rhinovirus species C using real-time PCR.
Journal of virological methods - 1 Sept 2016
Sikazwe Chisha T, Chidlow Glenys R, Imrie Allison, Smith David W
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Rhinovirus C (RV-C) is an important respiratory pathogen of children, but little is known about its contribution to disease severity, though viral load appears to be important. Difficulty in RV-C cultivation and target sequence variation has precluded the development of a PCR based quantification method. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to develop and validate reverse transcription quantitative...
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