Patent ID: 7348145

Claim:
A method of detecting and identifying one or more types of human herpesvirus in a sample, comprising the steps of: (a) applying onto a supporting substrate consensus DNA polymerase gene standards corresponding to one or more human herpesviruses; (b) isolating DNA from said sample; (c) amplifying said DNA by a nested pan-herpes PCR with a first round primer pair consisting of SEQ ID NOs: 1 and 2; and a second round primer pair consisting of SEQ ID NOS: 5 and 9 amplifying the PCR product of the first round thereby forming second round PCR products; (d) hybridizing said second round PCR products to said supporting substrate; and (e) detecting bound PCR products on said supporting substrate, wherein the presence of bound PCR product to a consensus DNA standard for a human herpesvirus indicates the presence of said human herpesvirus in said sample.