Zhai, JunhuiPalacios, GustavoTowner, Jonathan S.Jabado, OmarKapoor, VishalVenter, MarietjieGrolla, AllenBriese, ThomasPaweska, Janusz TadeuszSwanepoel, RobertFeldmann, HeinzNichol, Stuart T.Lipkin, Ian W.2008-01-312008-01-312007-01Zhai, J, Palacios, G, Towner, JS, Jabado, O, Kapoor, V, Venter, M, Grolla, A, Briese, T, Paweska, J, Swanepoel, R, Feldmann, H, Nichol, ST & Lipkin WI 2007, ‘Rapid molecular strategy for filovirus detection and characterization’, Journal of Clinical Microbiology, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 224-226. [http://jcm.asm.org/]0095-11371098-660X10.1128/JCM.01893-06http://hdl.handle.net/2263/4328Filoviruses have the capacity to cause lethal outbreaks of hemorrhagic fever in primates. Here we present a simple consensus reverse transcription-PCR method for filovirus recognition and characterization and demonstrate its utility with all known filovirus strains. Phylogenetic assignment is achieved by automated web-based sequence analysis of amplification products.473360 bytesapplication/pdfenAmerican Society for MicrobiologyFilovirusesPhylogeneticHemorrhagic feverViruses -- IsolationArticle