| first detection and confirmation of spring viraemia of carp virus in common carp, cyprinus carpio l., from hamilton harbour, lake ontario, canada. | in june 2006, 150 wild common carp were sampled from hamilton harbour, lake ontario, canada. tissue pools consisting of kidney, spleen and encephalon were screened for viruses as a condition facilitating the export of live carp to france. cytopathic effect (cpe), indicative of a viral infection, became evident after 8 days of incubation at 15 degrees c. eighteen of 30 tissue pools (five fish per pool) eventually demonstrated viral cpe. the viral pathogen was initially cultured and isolated on th ... | 2007 | 17958610 |
| cost analysis of multiplex pcr testing for diagnosing respiratory virus infections. | we performed a cost analysis study using decision tree modeling to determine whether the use of multiplex pcr testing for respiratory viruses (xtag rvp test) is a more or less costly strategy than the status quo testing methods used for the diagnosis of respiratory virus infections in pediatric patients. the decision tree model was constructed by using four testing strategies for respiratory virus detection, viz., direct fluorescent-antibody staining (dfa) alone, dfa plus shell vial culture (svc ... | 2009 | 19571025 |