The role of nucleic acid amplification and detection in the clinical microbiology laboratory

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue , 1996, Pages 349-373

  Whelen, A Christian ^a   Persing, David H ^b  

^a BROOKE ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

infectious diseases; molecular biology; polymerase chain reaction (PCR); pulsed field gel electrophoresis

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS; ENCEPHALITIS; FEVER; GENE AMPLIFICATION; MYCOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PHARYNGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STREPTOCOCCUS; TUBERCULOSIS; URETHRITIS; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, VIRAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS DISEASES;

ARENA; MYCOBACTERIUM; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0029817904     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.50.1.349     Document Type: Review

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