SUMMARY PCR has revolutionized the field of infectious disease diagnosis. To overcome
the inherent disadvantage of cost and to improve the diagnostic capacity of the test …

The use of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in molecular diagnostics has increased to
the point where it is now accepted as the gold standard for detecting nucleic acids from a …

An increasing number of virology laboratories are now utilising in house real time PCR
assays as the frontline diagnostic tests. As the number of tests on offer increases the natural …

The employment of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) techniques for virus detection and
quantification offers the advantages of high sensitivity and reproducibility, combined with an …

The advent of PCR has transformed the utility of the virus diagnostic laboratory. In
comparison to traditional gel based PCR assays, real time PCR offers increased sensitivity …

In the last few years, molecular hybridization methods have been used extensively in basic
and applied virology because of their technical flexibility and high specificity. Using these …

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

Real-time PCR has revolutionized the way clinical microbiology laboratories diagnose many
human microbial infections. This testing method combines PCR chemistry with fluorescent …

Use of PCR in the field of molecular diagnostics has increased to the point where it is now
accepted as the standard method for detecting nucleic acids from a number of sample and …

PCR and other sequence-based microbial detection methods, once considered to be only
research tools, are being used increasingly in the clinical microbiology laboratory. As this …