Optimizing environmental viral surveillance: bovine serum albumin increases RT-qPCR sensitivity for high pathogenicity avian influenza H5Nx virus detection from dust samples

ABSTRACT The latest outbreaks of high pathogenicity avian influenza viruses (HPAIVs) were the most widespread ever seen in Europe, entailing considerable economic costs and raising public health concerns. Virological surveillance protocols involve reverse transcription quantitative polymerase chain...

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Main Authors: Pierre Bessière, Brandon Hayes, Fabien Filaire, Laetitia Lèbre, Timothée Vergne, Matthieu Pinson, Guillaume Croville, Jean-Luc Guérin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2023-12-01
Series:Microbiology Spectrum
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.03055-23