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. 2007 Sep;45(9):3109-10.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.00697-07. Epub 2007 Jul 25.

Testing of diagnostic methods for detection of influenza virus for optimal performance in the context of an influenza surveillance network

Mercedes Pérez-Ruiz  1 , Ruth Yeste, María-José Ruiz-Pérez, Alfonso Ruiz-Bravo, Manuel de la Rosa-Fraile, José María Navarro-Marí
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Testing of diagnostic methods for detection of influenza virus for optimal performance in the context of an influenza surveillance network

Mercedes Pérez-Ruiz et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2007 Sep.

Abstract

Influenza surveillance networks must detect early the viruses that will cause the forthcoming annual epidemics and isolate the strains for further characterization. We obtained the highest sensitivity (95.4%) with a diagnostic tool that combined a shell-vial assay and reverse transcription-PCR on cell culture supernatants at 48 h, and indeed, recovered the strain.

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