Journal of Clinical Virology
Volume 38, Issue 1 , Pages 73-77 , January 2007

Quality control assessment for the PCR diagnosis of tick-borne encephalitis virus infections

  • Oliver Donoso Mantke

      Affiliations

    • Robert Koch-Institut, Centre for Biological Safety, Division of Highly Pathogenic Viruses (ZBS-1), Nordufer 20, D-13353 Berlin, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +49 30 4547 2387/21 (sec.); fax: +49 30 4547 2625/2390 (sec.).
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  • Stephan W. Aberle

      Affiliations

    • Medical University of Vienna, Kinderspitalgasse 15, 1095 Wien, Austria
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  • Tatjana Avšič-Županc

      Affiliations

    • Medical Faculty of Ljubljana, Zaloška 4, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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  • Milan Labuda

      Affiliations

    • Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dubravska cesta 9, 845 06 Bratislava, Slovakia
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  • Matthias Niedrig

      Affiliations

    • Robert Koch-Institut, Centre for Biological Safety, Division of Highly Pathogenic Viruses (ZBS-1), Nordufer 20, D-13353 Berlin, Germany

Received 20 March 2006 ,Revised 1 September 2006 ,Accepted 7 September 2006.

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PII: S1386-6532(06)00319-2

doi: 10.1016/j.jcv.2006.09.001

Journal of Clinical Virology
Volume 38, Issue 1 , Pages 73-77 , January 2007

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