A novel duplex real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction assay for the detection of hepatitis C viral RNA with armored RNA as internal control

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The hepatitis C virus (HCV) genome is extremely heterogeneous. Several HCV infections can not be detected using currently available commercial assays, probably because of mismatches between the template and primers/probes. By alignin...

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Main Authors: Meng Shuang, Li Jinming
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2010-06-01
Series:Virology Journal
Online Access:http://www.virologyj.com/content/7/1/117