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Point-of-care diagnostic assay for the detection of Zika virus using the recombinase polymerase amplification method.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Aug 2018
Vasileva Wand Nadina I, Bonney Laura C, Watson Robert J, Graham Victoria, Hewson Roger
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The sudden and explosive expansion of Zika virus (ZIKV) from the African continent through Oceania and culminating in the outbreak in South America has highlighted the importance of new rapid point-of-care diagnostic tools for the control and prevention of transmission. ZIKV infection has devastating consequences, such as neurological congenital malformations in infants born to infected mothers and Guillain-Barré...
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