Detection of Viral Particels in Urticaria Patients

HaEmek Medical Center, Israel

Status: Completed

Conditions: Urticaria Chronic

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03151902

HaEmekMC1

Details and patient eligibility

About

Blood samples from urticaria patients will be analyzed for viral particles

Full description

After digestion with DNase to eliminate human DNA, RNA will be reversed-transcribed and amplified with random primer/ Amplification products will be pooled and sequenced/ After substruction of sequences of vertebrates and highly repetitive sequences, contiguous sequences will be assembled and compared with motifs represented in databases of viruses. which will enable identification of putative protein sequences consistent with viruses

Enrollment: 10 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with chronic spontaneous urticaria

Exclusion criteria

• none