Comparison of manual and automated nucleic acid extraction from whole-blood samples

Journal of Clinical Laboratory Analysis

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 244-248

  Riemann, Kathrin ^a   Adamzik, Michael ^a   Frauenrath, Stefan ^a   Egensperger, Rupert ^a   Schmid, Kurt W ^a   Brockmeyer, Norbert H ^b   Siffert, Winfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

DNA purification; PCR; Quality; Quantity; Roboter

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; DEVICE; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA PURIFICATION; GENOTYPE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; STANDARDIZATION;

BLOOD; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; DNA, VIRAL; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; ROBOTICS;

EID: 34547395821     PISSN: 08878013     EISSN: 10982825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcla.20174     Document Type: Article

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