Patent ID: 9487838
Filing Date: 2016-11-08
CPC Classification: C12Q

Claim Text:
1. A method for detecting adenoviral nucleic acid from an adenovirus that causes respiratory infections in a biological sample, comprising: a) obtaining viral nucleic acid from a biological sample that is suspected to include material from an adenovirus that causes respiratory infections; b) amplifying the viral nucleic acid; c) contacting an oligonucleotide probe with the amplified viral nucleic acid obtained in step b), said probe comprising: d) detecting specific hybridization of the oligonucleotide probe to the amplified viral nucleic acid; wherein the specific hybridization of said oligonucleotide probe in step c) i) indicates that the biological sample contains adenovirus nucleic acid from an adenovirus that causes respiratory infections, and wherein no hybridization of said oligonucleotide probe in step c) i) indicates that the biological sample does not contain nucleic acid from an adenovirus that causes respiratory infections.