In-house quantitative real-time PCR for the diagnosis of hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus infections

Abstract The quantification of viral nucleic acids in serum by real-time PCR plays an important role in diagnosing hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus infection. In this study, we developed an assay using specific primers and probes to quantify hepatitis B virus DNA or hepatitis C virus RNA in s...

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Main Authors: Danielle Alves Gomes Zauli, Carla Lisandre Paula de Menezes, Cristiane Lommez de Oliveira, Elvis Cristian Cueva Mateo, Alessandro Clayton de Souza Ferreira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Microbiologia
Series:Brazilian Journal of Microbiology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822016000400987&lng=en&tlng=en