In the present work PCR technology was used as a tool to detect the early stages of wood decay and was compared with microscopic evaluation...
Keywords: brown rot, Coniophora, fungal colonisation, Fungi, polymerase chain reaction (PCR), sequencing, terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP), wood
11/2005 | Holzforschung, Walter de GruyterNucleic acid techniques (NATs), such as species-specific and universal polymerase chain reactions (PCRs), are finding ever wider use in the diagnosis of bacterial infection...
Keywords: bacteraemia, bacterial infections, nucleic acid testing, polymerase chain reaction (PCR), Validation
07/2008 | Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de Gruyter