Sentences with phrase «viral nucleic acids»

Erik Larsson and colleagues used data from The Cancer Genome Atlas to detect the presence of viral nucleic acids in 4,438 tumours from 19 different cancer subtypes and found that 178 tumours contained viral RNA.

We have studied a total of 170 samples from chronic fatigue syndrome patients from two UK cohorts and 395 controls for evidence of XMRV infection by looking either for the presence of viral nucleic acids using quantitative PCR (limit of detection < 16 viral copies) or for the presence of serological responses using a virus neutralisation assay.

Currently, acute infections are predominantly confirmed by detecting viral nucleic acid in blood and urine.

For these tests, doctors isolate and amplify viral nucleic acid in samples from an infected patient.

The immune system detects viruses when viral nucleic acids bind protein receptors in immune cells.

I approach these as essentially «weak positives,» because it means the test detected viral nucleic acids in the dog's sample but at a low enough level that it's not considered definitive.

Using sensitive polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests to scour through Brown's blood cells, plasma, and rectal tissue, Yukl and others were able to were able to detect bits of viral nucleic acid.

It sheds its coat, bares its genes and induces the cell's own replication machinery to reproduce the intruder's DNA or RNA and manufacture more viral protein based on the instructions in the viral nucleic acid.

Viral nucleic acids were isolated from blood samples drawn at multiple time points and were sequenced to provide a description of the viral population.