A novel and sensitive real-time PCR system for universal detection of poxviruses

Abstract Success in smallpox eradication was enabled by the absence of non-human reservoir for smallpox virus. However, other poxviruses with a wider host spectrum can infect humans and represent a potential health threat to humans, highlighted by a progressively increasing number of infections by (...

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Main Authors: Léa Luciani, Lucia Inchauste, Olivier Ferraris, Rémi Charrel, Antoine Nougairède, Géraldine Piorkowski, Christophe Peyrefitte, Stéphane Bertagnoli, Xavier de Lamballerie, Stéphane Priet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-01-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-81376-4