Future Virology. 2008;3(2):179-192. Although not listed as a hemorrhagic fever virus, illness caused by CHIKV can be confused with diseases such as dengue or yellow fever, based on the similarity ...

Here we report quantitative methods that monitor formation of reverse transcription products, two-LTR circles and integrated proviruses. The integration assay employs a novel quantitative form of ...

Collectively, the real-time RT-PCR amplification methods have several intrinsic disadvantages requiring either a high precision instrument for amplification or an elaborate, complicated method for ...