Validation criteria for nucleic acid amplification techniques for bacterial infections

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 909-918

  Döring, Gerd ^a,b   Unertl, Klaus ^a   Heininger, Alexandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b Inst fur Med Mikrobiol und Hyg   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bacteraemia; Bacterial infections; Nucleic acid testing; Polymerase chain reaction (PCR); Validation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

BACTERIAL INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA ISOLATION; DNA PURIFICATION; HUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VALIDATION STUDY;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 47349097580     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2008.152     Document Type: Review

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