| rapid diagnosis of argentine hemorrhagic fever by reverse transcriptase pcr-based assay. | argentine hemorrhagic fever (ahf) is an endemo-epidemic disease caused by junín virus. this report demonstrates that a reverse transcriptase (rt) pcr-based assay developed in our laboratory to detect junín virus in whole blood samples is sensitive and specific. the experiments were conducted in a double-blinded manner using 94 clinical samples collected in the area in which ahf is endemic. the rt-pcr-based assay was compared with traditional methodologies, including enzyme-linked immunosorbent a ... | 1995 | 7542268 |