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SUBMITTER: Gonzalez VM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5198053 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
González Víctor M VM Martín M Elena ME Fernández Gerónimo G García-Sacristán Ana A
Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) 20161216 4
Appropriate diagnosis is the key factor for treatment of viral diseases. Time is the most important factor in rapidly developing and epidemiologically dangerous diseases, such as influenza, Ebola and SARS. Chronic viral diseases such as HIV-1 or HCV are asymptomatic or oligosymptomatic and the therapeutic success mainly depends on early detection of the infective agent. Over the last years, aptamer technology has been used in a wide range of diagnostic and therapeutic applications and, concretel ...[more]