Factors that inhibit the amplification of nucleic acids by PCR are present with target DNAs
from many sources. The inhibitors generally act at one or more of three essential points in …

Clinical laboratories are increasingly receiving requests to perform nucleic acid amplification
tests for the detection of a wide variety of infectious agents. In this paper, the efficiency of …

Streptococcus mutans and Streptococcus sobrinus are major pathogens causing dental
caries in humans. A simple and rapid method to detect these species in human saliva …

We conducted a meta-analysis to assess the performance of PCR for the diagnosis of smear-
negative pulmonary tuberculosis (SPT) and to identify factors that account for differences in …

ABSTRACT Caspofungin acetate (MK-0991) is an antifungal antibiotic that inhibits the
synthesis of 1, 3-β-d-glucan, an essential component of the cell wall of several pathogenic …

In cases of suspected extrapulmonary tuberculosis, rapid and accurate laboratory diagnosis
is of prime importance, since traditional techniques of detecting acid-fast bacilli have …

Background More than 200 studies related to nucleic acid amplification (NAA) tests to detect
Mycobacterium tuberculosis directly from clinical specimens have appeared in the world …

Staphylococcus aureus is an economically important and a major mastitis-causing pathogen
that also poses food safety and antimicrobial resistance threats. Substances in mastitic milk …

Simple sample-processing methods for PCR detection of Porphyromonas gingivalis, a major
pathogen causing adult periodontitis, from saliva were studied. The ability to detect P …

The genetic status of cagA, vacA subtype, iceA1, and babA, and the relationship to
gastroduodenal diseases were assessed in Helicobacter pylori isolates in Korea. Seventy …