Making Internal Amplification Control Mandatory for Diagnostic PCR [2]

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 5835-

  Hoorfar, Jeffrey ^a   Cook, Nigel ^b   Malorny, Burkhard ^c   Wagner, Martin ^d   De Medici, Dario ^e   Abdulmawjood, Amir ^f   Fach, Patrick ^g  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b CENTRAL SCIENCE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR RISK ASSESSMENT   (Germany)

^d Institute for Milk Hygiene   (Austria)

^e ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^f JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^g Healthy Pigs Production and Experimentation Section   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC KIT; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DNA SEQUENCE; LETTER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARDIZATION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

GENE AMPLIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0348109496     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.12.5835.2003     Document Type: Letter

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