Table 3.

Examples of generic primer PCR tests

Virus	Target	Reference
Papillomaviruses	L1 region	(Coutlee et al., 2002, Kleter et al., 1998, Nelson et al., 2000)
Enteroviruses	5′-NCR	(Clewley, 1995, Shih et al., 2003, Zoll et al., 1992)
Herpesviruses	DNA polymerase	(Calvario et al., 2002, Ehlers et al., 1999, Minjolle et al., 1999, VanDevanter et al., 1996, Yamamoto and Nakamura, 2000)
Retroviruses	Pol region	(Burmeister et al., 2001)
Lentiviruses (HIV/SIV)	Pol region	(Clewley et al., 1998, Courgnaud et al., 2001, Gelman et al., 1992, Masciotra et al., 2002, Miura et al., 1990, Yang et al., 2000)
Positive stranded viruses	RNA polymerase	(Chen and Plagemann, 1995)
Influenza viruses	NP gene	(Coiras et al., 2003)
RSV	Fusion protein gene	(Coiras et al., 2003)
Adenoviruses	Hexon protein gene	(Coiras et al., 2003)
Dengue virus/flaviviruses	3′-NCR, NS3 protein gene	(Chow et al., 1993, Houng et al., 2001, Seah et al., 1995)
Arenaviruses	3′-NCR	(Lozano et al., 1997)
Rotaviruses	VP7 segment	(Chizhikov et al., 2002)