Journal of Antivirals & Antiretrovirals
Open Access

Abstract

Rapid Identification of Swine-Origin Influenza A Virus by Peptide Nucleic Acid Chromatography

Kunihiro Kaihatsu, Shinjiro Sawada and Nobuo Kato

Early and rapid detection of a virus infection is crucial for preventing transmission and initiating treatment. The sequence-specific detection of a target viral gene has been used to diagnose not only a virus infection, but also the virus strain, clade, and drug resistance. We here propose a novel type of rapid diagnostic that can visually identify virus infections using nucleic acid hybridization-based methods.