Nucleic acid amplification techniques are commonly used currently to diagnose viral
diseases and manage patients with this kind of illnesses. These techniques have had a …

In order to comply with national and international clinical laboratory accreditation standards
(eg the ISO 15189, Clinical Pathology Accreditation standards) and with the joint code of …

BACKGROUND: Molecular diagnostics plays an important role in the diagnosis and clinical
management of a wide array of infectious diseases. METHODS: Advances in molecular …

Molecular diagnostic procedures have been described in a number of recent books and
articles. However, these publications have not focused on virus detection, nor have they …

Molecular biology has significantly improved diagnosis in the field of clinical virology. Virus
discovery and rapid implementation of diagnostic tests for newly discovered viruses has …

A decade after the first studies were performed it is justifiable to claim that molecular
techniques have revolutionised the work of the clinical virology laboratory. Hitherto, the role …

The diagnosis of infectious diseases has been revolutionized by the development of
molecular techniques, foremost with the applications of the polymerase chain reaction …

Molecular diagnostic methods have evolved and matured considerably over the last several
decades and are constantly being evaluated and adopted by clinical laboratories for the …

The possibility to detect viral DNA or RNA in a quantitative manner has already contributed
significantly to the management and diagnosis of viral infections, as well as to the …

The “gold standard” for viral identification is the conventional cell culture. Although cell
culture has proven effective in the identification process of viral pathogens, there are …