The testing and rapid detection of pathogenic organisms is a crucial protocol in the
prevention and identification of crises related to health, safety and wellbeing. Pathogen …

High‐throughput droplet‐based digital PCR (ddPCR) is a refinement of the conventional
polymerase chain reaction (PCR)‎ methods. In ddPCR, DNA/RNA is encapsulated …

Background Chronic endometritis is a persistent inflammation of the endometrial mucosa
caused by bacterial pathogens such as Enterobacteriaceae, Enterococcus, Streptococcus …

Taxonomic names are key links between various databases that store information on
different organisms. Several global fungal nomenclural and taxonomic databases (notably …

Leptospirosis is a zoonotic disease caused by the pathogenic helical spirochetes,
Leptospira. Symptoms include sudden-onset fever, severe headaches, muscle pain, nausea …

There is a need to document the methodologies used for molecular phylogenetic analyses
since the current fungal identification, classification and phylogeny are necessarily applied …

The characterization of the diversity of species living within ecosystems is of major scientific
interest to understand the functioning of these ecosystems. It is also becoming a societal …

Polymerase chain reaction is an important tool in molecular biology. Although the principles
of the technique are relatively simple, amplifying complex or long DNA segments can be …

Abstract Point-of-care (POC) testing devices are necessary to improve human life with many
aspects both for developing and developed countries. Especially, the specific biomolecules …

Background Subunits of ribosomal RNA genes (rDNAs) characterized by PCR-based
protocols have been the proxy for studies in microbial taxonomy, phylogenetics, evolution …