| recovery of live virus after storage at ambient temperature using vivest™. | a major impediment to performing virological field studies in developing nations is the lack of ultra-low freezers as well as the expense and difficulty of shipping frozen samples. a commercially available product, vivest™, was developed to preserve nucleic acids at ambient temperature for use in specimen storage and transportation. however, its applications as a viral storage, transport and recovery device have not been evaluated. | 2012 | 23046621 |