## Abstract A quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay was evaluated retrospectively on 92 cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples from 29 patients with herpes simplex virus (HSV) encephalitis with the aim to study if the concentration of HSV genomes can be used as a prognostic marker and for m
Differentiation of herpes simplex virus types 1 and 2 in clinical samples by a real-time taqman PCR assay
โ Scribed by Lawrence Corey; Meei-Li Huang; Stacy Selke; Anna Wald
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 196 KB
- Volume
- 76
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0146-6615
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