Detection and species-level identification of primate herpesviruses with a comprehensive PCR test for human herpesviruses.
A comprehensive assay for the identification of all eight human herpesviruses has been previously reported. This assay was extended to the detection and species-level identification of herpes B virus (Cercopithecine herpesvirus 1) and African green monkey cytomegalovirus (Cercopithecine herpesvirus 5), two herpesviruses of relevance to the clinical virology laboratory.
Johnson
Grant
G
Division of Microbiology, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Dick
Daryl
D
Ayers
Melissa
M
Petric
Martin
M
Tellier
Raymond
R
D000818:Animals; D002522:Chlorocebus aethiops; D006564:Herpesviridae / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods*