Patent ID: 8383335

Claim:
A method for diagnosing a virus infection in a subject, comprising a) obtaining a urine sample from a subject; b) separating a soluble fraction of said urine sample; and c) detecting the presence of a cell-free virus nucleic acid in said soluble fraction of said urine sample, wherein said nucleic acid is less than about 300 bp in length, wherein said detecting is performed by a method selected from the group consisting of PCR, nested PCR, SSCP, LCR, and SDA, using a primer set comprising at least one forward primer selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NOs: 1 and 3 and at least one reverse primer selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NOs: 2 and 4, or a forward primer of SEQ ID NO: 5 and at least one reverse primer selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NOs: 6 and 7, or a forward primer of SEQ ID NO: 11 and a reverse primer of SEQ ID NO: 10, wherein the presence of said nucleic acid diagnoses a viral infection.