Inhibition controls for qualitative real-time PCR assays: Are they necessary for all specimen matrices?

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2139-2143

  Buckwalter, S P ^a   Sloan, L M ^a   Cunningham, S A ^a   Espy, M J ^a   Uhl, J R ^a   Jones, M F ^a   Vetter, E A ^a   Mandrekar, J ^a   Cockerill III, F R ^a   Pritt, B S ^a   Patel, R ^a   Wengenack, N L ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL AGENT; INHIBITION CONTROL AGENT; PARAFFIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE TARGETING; INHIBITION KINETICS; INHIBITION RATE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LABORATORY TEST; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION; TISSUE PREPARATION; URINALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS; VIRUS DETECTION; EVALUATION STUDY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; PROCEDURES; STANDARD; STANDARDS;

HUMANS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REFERENCE STANDARDS;

EID: 84901667509     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.03389-13     Document Type: Article

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