Detection and species-level identification of primate herpesviruses with a comprehensive PCR test for human herpesviruses

Grant Johnson; Daryl Dick; Melissa Ayers; Martin Petric; Raymond Tellier

doi:10.1128/JCM.41.3.1256-1258.2003

Detection and species-level identification of primate herpesviruses with a comprehensive PCR test for human herpesviruses

J Clin Microbiol. 2003 Mar;41(3):1256-8. doi: 10.1128/JCM.41.3.1256-1258.2003.

Authors

Grant Johnson¹, Daryl Dick, Melissa Ayers, Martin Petric, Raymond Tellier

Affiliation

¹ Division of Microbiology, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Abstract

A comprehensive assay for the identification of all eight human herpesviruses has been previously reported. This assay was extended to the detection and species-level identification of herpes B virus (Cercopithecine herpesvirus 1) and African green monkey cytomegalovirus (Cercopithecine herpesvirus 5), two herpesviruses of relevance to the clinical virology laboratory.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
Chlorocebus aethiops
Herpesviridae / isolation & purification*
Humans
Molecular Sequence Data
Polymerase Chain Reaction / methods*

Associated data

GENBANK/AY117754