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Frontiers of polymerase chain reaction diagnostics for uveitis
1Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University Medical School, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA. vangelder@vision.wustl.edu
Ocular Immunology and Inflammation
|July 13, 2001
Abstract:
The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a powerful molecular biologic technique for the detection of pathogen DNA. Recent technical advances in the technique have broadened its scope considerably. Emerging applications of PCR in pathogen strain typing, rapid screening of differential diagnoses, and pathogen discovery are discussed.