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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Infect Disord Drug Targets. 2008 Sep;8(3):183–188. doi: 10.2174/1871526510808030183

Table 1.

Molecular diagnostic tests for infectious diseases

  1. DIRECT HYBRIDIZATION

    • Hybridization Protection Assay

      • Gen-Probe

    • Hybrid Capture

      • Digene

    • bDNA

      • Bayer

    • In situ hybridization

  2. NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION

    1. PCR based

      • Real-time PCR

        • Roche Diagnostics

    2. Non-PCR based

      • Nucleic acid sequence-based amplification (NASBA)

        • bioMericux

      • Transcription-mediated amplification (TMA)

        • Gen-Probe

      • Standard displacement amplification (SDA)

        • Becton Dickinson

      • Ligase chain reaction (LCR)

        • Abbott

      • Signal-mediated amplification of RNA (SMART)

  3. POST-AMPLIFICATION ANALYSIS

    • Bead-based flow cytometric assays

      • Luminex

    • Sequencing

      • Applied Biosystems

    • Microarray