Differentiation of Influenza B Virus Lineages Yamagata and Victoria by Real-Time PCR
- 1 April 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 48 (4), 1425-1427
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.02116-09
Abstract
Since the 1970s, influenza B viruses have diverged into two antigenically distinct virus lineages called the Yamagata and Victoria lineages. We present the first real-time PCR assay for virus lineage differentiation to supplement classical antigenic analyses. The assay was successfully applied to 310 primary samples collected in Germany from 2007 to 2009.Keywords
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