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Application of nucleic acid amplification in clinical microbiology
1Department of Clinical Microbiology, Herler Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Abstract:
The use of nucleic acid amplification methods in routine clinical microbiology laboratories is becoming increasingly widespread. The theory of polymerase chain reaction is described, including discussion of suitable microbal targets, extraction of nucleic acid from clinical samples, choice of primers, optimization of the process, laboratory design, contamination, and other problems as well as quality control. Other nucleic acid amplification methods such as ligase chain reaction, self-sustained sequence replication, strand displacement amplification, and branched DNA signal amplification are described and the choice of technology is discussed.
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