Laser cutting eliminates nucleic acid cross-contamination in dried-blood-spot processing

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 4128-4130

  Murphy, Sean C ^a   Daza, Glenda ^a   Chang, Ming ^a   Coombsa, Robert ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 18S;

ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS CONTAMINATION; DRIED BLOOD SPOT TESTING; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALARIA; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; PARASITEMIA; PATIENT MONITORING; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BLOOD; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; DNA CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; LASERS; MALARIA; NUCLEIC ACIDS; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

EID: 84869229204     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02549-12     Document Type: Article

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