Publications by authors named "Emilio Patella"
J Virol Methods
November 2011
Article Synopsis
- During the 2009 pandemic, researchers at the Virology Laboratory in Rome used a CDC-developed RT-PCR method to diagnose influenza A/H1N1 (H1N1pdm).
- A new multiplex RT-PCR from Astra Diagnostics, combined with Siemens Healthcare's extraction system, was tested on 76 nasopharyngeal swabs that had varying results from the CDC method.
- The RealStar system successfully identified all previously confirmed H1N1pdm and H3N2 samples, and it was able to subtype 37.9% of untyped samples, though it found that 62.1% of samples labeled as influenza A-positive by the CDC were actually negative.
