1. MassTag Polymerase Chain Reaction for Differential Diagnosis of Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers
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Gustavo Palacios, Thomas Briese, Vishal Kapoor, Omar Jabado, Zhiqiang Liu, Marietjie Venter, Junhui Zhai, Neil Renwick, Allen Grolla, Thomas W. Geisbert, Christian Drosten, Jonathan S. Towner, Jingyue Ju, Janusz Paweska, Stuart T. Nichol, Robert Swanepoel, Heinz Feldmann, Peter B. Jahrling, and W. Ian Lipkin
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Mass spectroscopy ,PCR ,multiplex ,viral hemorrhagic fever ,differential diagnosis ,infectious diseases ,Medicine ,Infectious and parasitic diseases ,RC109-216 - Abstract
Viral hemorrhagic fevers are associated with high rates of illness and death. Although therapeutic options are limited, early differential diagnosis has implications for containment and may aid in clinical management. We describe a diagnostic system for rapid, multiplex polymerase chain reaction identification of 10 different causes of viral hemorrhagic fevers.
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- 2006
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