Interest of postmortem-collected specimens in the diagnosis of fulminant meningococcal sepsis

RT-PCR based diagnosis and molecular cha

RT-PCR based diagnosis and molecular characterisation of mumps viruses derived from clinical specimens collected during the 1996 mumps outbreak in Portugal

✍ Afzal, M. A.; Buchanan, J.; Dias, J. A.; Cordeiro, M.; Bentley, M. L.; Shorrock, 📂 Article 📅 1997 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 195 KB

Clinical specimens collected during an outbreak of mumps were characterised by RT-PCR, nested PCR, and nucleotide sequencing. Mumps virus was positively identified in 12/21(57%) saliva, 9/21(43%), throat and 1/33(3%) urine specimens and further sequence comparison revealed that at least six strains