SpringerProtocols: Abstract: PCR Technology and Applications to Zoonotic Food-Borne Bacterial Pathogens

PCR Technology and Applications to Zoonotic Food-Borne Bacterial Pathogens

By: Peter Stephensen Lübeck³, Jeffrey Hoorfar³

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Among molecular biological methods targeting nucleic acids, the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has become the most popular diagnostic method in human and veterinary medicine, as well as in microbiological food testing (1,2).

Affiliation(s): (3) Danish Veterinary Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark

Book Title: PCR Detection of Microbial Pathogens

Series: Methods in Molecular Biology | Volume: 216 | Pub. Date: Nov-14-2002 | Page Range: 65-84 | DOI: 10.1385/1-59259-344-5:65

Subject: Microbiology

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