Measurement of Human Herpesvirus 7 Load in Peripheral Blood and Saliva of Healthy Subjects by Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction

doi:10.1093/infdis/174.2.396

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Measurement of Human Herpesvirus 7 Load in Peripheral Blood and Saliva of Healthy Subjects by Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction

1 Aug 1996

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Qualitative and competitive-quantitative nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays were developed for human herpesvirus 7 (HHV-7). These assays amplify a DNA sequence encoding part of the HHV-7 homologue of the human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) U42 gene. The PCR assays were used to analyze peripheral blood DNA (pbDNA) and saliva from 24 healthy volunteers. The prevalence of HHV-7 in saliva was 96%, with a median...

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