Table 4.
Selected Readings: Infectious Disease
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| Carroll KC, Lenoard RB, Newcomb-Gayman PL, Hillyard DR: Rapid detection of the staphylococcal mecA gene from BACTEC blood culture bottles by the polymerase chain reaction. Am J Clin Pathol 1996, 106:600–605 |
| Clementi M, Menzo S, Bagnarelli P, Valenza A, Paolucci S, Sampaolesi R, Manzin A, Varaldo PE: Clinical use of quantitative molecular methods in studying human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection. Clin Microbiol Rev 1996; 9:135–147 |
| Diagnostic Molecular Microbiology: Principles and Applications Edited by DH Persing, TF Smith, FC Tenover, and TJ White. Washington, D.C., American Society for Microbiology, 1993 |
| Forns X and Bukh J: Methods for determining the hepatitis C virus genotype. Viral Hepatitis 1998, 4:1–19 |
| Hjelle B: Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome. Laboratory Diagnosis of Viral Infections, ed 3 ch. 21. Edited by EH Lennette and TF Smith. New York, Marcel Dekker, pp 421–442 |
| Krarup HB, Jacobsen SE, Varming K, Drewes AM, Madsen PH: Performance of hepatitis C virus (HCV) antibody test systems in relation to HCV-RNA detection in the diagnosis of HCV infection. Dan Med Bull 1998, 45:89–91 |
| Lakeman FD, Whitley RJ: Diagnosis of herpes simplex encephalitis: application of polymerase chain reaction to cerebrospinal fluid from brain-biopsied patients and correlation with disease. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Collaborative Antiviral Study Gorup. J Infect Dis 1995, 171:857–863 |
| Morse SS: Importance of molecular diagnostics in the identification and control of emerging infections. Emerg Infect Dis 1996, 1:201–206 |
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| Schmitz FJ, Steiert M, Hofmann B, Verhoef J, Hadding U, Heinz HP, Kohrer K: Development of a multiplex-PCR for direct detection of the genes for enterotoxin B and C, and toxic shock syndrome toxin-1 in Staphylococcus aureus isolates. J Med Microbiol 1998, 47:335–40 |
| Tang YW, Procop GW, Persing DH: Molecular diagnostics of infectious diseases. Clin Chem 1997, 43:2021–2038 |
| Tompkins LS: The use of molecular methods in infectious diseases. N Engl J Med 1992, 327:1290–1297 |
| van Vliet KE, Glimaker M, Lebon P, Klapper PE, Taylor CE, Ciardi M, van der Avoort HG, Diepersloot RJ, Kurtz J, Peeters MF, Cleator GM, van Loon AM: Multicenter evaluation of the Amplicor Enterovirus PCR test with cerebrospinal fluid from patients with aseptic meningitis. The European Union Concerted Action on Viral Meningitis and Encephalitis. J Clin Microbiol 1998, 36:2652–2657 |
| Versalovic J, Woods CR, Georghiou PR, Hamill RJ, Lupski JR: DNA-based identification and epidemiologic typing of bacterial pathogens. Arch Pathol Lab Med 1993, 177:1088–1098 |
| Whelen AC, Persing DH: The role of nucleic acid amplification and detection in the clinical microbiology laboratory. Annu Rev Microbiol 1996, 50:349–373 |