Influenza A H5N1 Detection

Abstract

We developed a sensitive and rapid real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay to detect influenza A H5N1 virus in clinical samples. This assay was evaluated with samples from H5N1-infected patients and demonstrated greater sensitivity and faster turnaround time than nested RT-PCR.

Keywords

• Keywords: human influenza A H5N1 virus
• real-time PCR
• nested RT-PCR
• LightCycler
• molecular detection
• clinical samples