Novel internal controls for real-time PCR assays

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 801-802

  Nolte, Frederick S ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

AMPLICON; BINDING AFFINITY; DEVICE; EDITORIAL; FLUORESCENCE; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HYBRIDIZATION; MELTING POINT; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PLASMID; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; SYNTHESIS; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS;

FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FLUORESCENCE; HUMANS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 3; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SIMPLEXVIRUS;

EID: 2142762459     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2004.032672     Document Type: Editorial

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