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SUBMITTER: Weidmann M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC153887 | biostudies-literature | 2003 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Weidmann Manfred M Meyer-König Ursula U Hufert Frank T FT
Journal of clinical microbiology 20030401 4
The herpes simplex viruses types 1 and 2 (HSV-1 and HSV-2) and varicella-zoster virus (VZV) can cause life-threatening infections of the central nervous system and lead to severe infections in immunocompromised subjects and newborns. In these cases, rapid diagnosis is crucial. We developed three different real-time PCR assays based on TaqMan chemistry for the LightCycler instrument to detect HSV-1, HSV-2, and VZV. When the TaqMan assays were compared to our in-house nested PCR assays, the test s ...[more]