The possibilities and limitations of nucleic acid amplification technology in diagnostic microbiology

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Nucleic acid amplification technology is examined from the critical viewpoint of a clinical microbiologist working in a routine diagnostic bacteriology laboratory. Widely recognised limitations of amplification technology include those of false-positive and false-negative results, the difficulty of obtaining quantitative results, the problem of using this technology for susceptibility testing, and the difficulty...

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