Impact of long-term storage on stability of standard DNA for nucleic acid-based methods

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 4260-4262

  Röder, Barbara ^a   Frühwirth, Karin ^b   Vogl, Claus ^b   Wagner, Martin ^b   Rossmanith, Peter ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR MICROELECTRONICS   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; GLYCEROL; WATER;

ARTICLE; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DNA DEGRADATION; DNA ISOLATION; DNA STABILITY; DNA STRUCTURE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN; PRESERVATION AND STORAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; CRYOPRESERVATION; DNA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESERVATION, BIOLOGICAL; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 78049487811     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01230-10     Document Type: Article

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