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Genus-Specific Detection of Alphaviruses by a Semi-Nested Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction
1 Dec 1997
Abstract excerpt
A reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) was developed for the genus-specific detection of alphaviruses. Based on the available published sequences, degenerate primers were designed to ensure hybridization to a conserved region within the nonstructural protein 1 gene of all alphavirus species. The expected 434-basepair (bp) cDNA fragment was amplified from all 27 alphavirus species by using RNA...
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