Lineage-Specific Real-Time RT-PCR for Yellow Fever Virus Outbreak Surveillance, Brazil

Lineage-Specific Real-Time RT-PCR for Yellow Fever Virus Outbreak Surveillance, Brazil

The current yellow fever outbreak in Brazil prompted widespread yellow fever virus (YFV) vaccination campaigns, imposing a responsibility to distinguish between vaccine- and wild-type YFV-associated disease. We developed novel multiplex real-time reverse transcription PCRs that differentiate between...

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Main Authors: Carlo Fischer, Maria C. Torres, Pranav Patel, Andres Moreira-Soto, Ernest A. Gould, Rémi N. Charrel, Xavier de Lamballerie, Rita Maria Ribeiro Nogueira, Patricia C. Sequeira, Cintia D.S. Rodrigues, Beate M. Kümmerer, Christian Drosten, Olfert Landt, Ana Maria Bispo de Filippis, Jan Felix Drexler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2017-11-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
yellow fever virus
surveillance
real-time RT-PCR
vaccine safety
vector-borne infections
Americas
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/23/11/17-1131_article

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https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/23/11/17-1131_article

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