Real-time TaqMan RT-PCR Assays for Selective Detection of Human Rhinovirus
HRV is the most frequent cause of the common cold. From a clinical standpoint, diagnosis of HRV infection is quite difficult as the related symptoms can be caused by other agents as well. Additionally, laboratory detection of HRV is challenging as HRV exhibits extreme antigenic variability and certain strains cannot be maintained by cell culture.
- Development of human rhinovirus (HRV) diagnostics
- Acute lower respiratory illness diagnostics and investigation
- Validated against all 100 human rhinovirus prototype strains
- Rapid, sensitive and quantitative
- One-step assay
- Easily adapted to kit form