Is it time to replace the Petri dish with PCR? Application of culture-independent nucleic acid amplification in diagnostic bacteriology: Expectations and reality

Pathology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 436-439

  Sintchenko, Vitali ^a   Iredell, Jon R ^b   Gilbert, Gwendolyn L ^b  

^a WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; NUCLEIC ACID;

BACTERIOLOGY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EXPECTATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; NOTE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RELIABILITY;

EID: 0033405028     PISSN: 00313025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/003130299104909     Document Type: Article

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